Savyabhicara, Savyabhicāra: 9 definitions
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Savyabhicara means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Savyabhichara.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of termsSavyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार):—[savyabhicāram] The statement which conveys the multiple implications
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy
Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)Savyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार) refers to the “erratic reason” or “undistributed middle term” and represents one of the various types of Hetvābhāsa (“fallacy”) (within a debate), according to Upāyakauśalyahṛdaya, an ancient work on the art of debate composed by Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna.—Hetvābhāsa (‘the fallacies’) signify reasons which are derived form an imperfect perception, inference, or comparison, or which deviate from the scripture. [...] The erratic reason or undistributed middle term (savyabhicāra), e.g., “to say that all external things are non-eternal is to employ an erratic reason, because the sky is an external thing which is eternal”
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Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySavyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार).—One of the five main divisions of Hetvābhāsa (in logic), a too general middle term; for explanation, see अनैकान्तिक (anaikāntika).
Derivable forms: savyabhicāraḥ (सव्यभिचारः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySavyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार).—m.
(-raḥ) A reason or argument that is locally incompatible with the conclusion to be drawn from it; a Hetu that is too general, (in logic.) E. sa with, vyabhicāra irrelevancy.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionarySavyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार).—m. a too general middle term (as fire to prove smoke).
Savyabhicāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sa and vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Savyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—[nyāya] Pheh. 13.
—by Gadādhara q. v.
—by Mathurānātha. Peters. 3, 391.
2) Savyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार):—[nyāya] Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 105.
—by Jagadīśa. Stein 141.
3) Savyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार):—[nyāya] by Gadādhara. Cs 3, 466. 467 (inc.).
—by Jagadīśa. Cs 3, 262 ([fragmentary]). 468 (inc.).
1) Savyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार):—[=sa-vyabhicāra] [from sa > sa-vaṃśā] mfn. idem
2) [v.s. ...] m. (in [philosophy]) an argument wide of the mark or incompatible with the conclusion drawn from it, an allegation proving too much (one of the Hetv-ābhāsas q.v.), a too general middle term (as ‘fire’ to prove smoke), [Nyāyasūtra; Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]
3) [v.s. ...] Name of various Nyāya works.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionarySavyabhicāra (सव्यभिचार):—[sa-vyabhicāra] (raḥ) 1. m. An inconsistent argument. a. Adulterous.
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Partial matches: Vyabhicara, Sha, Ca.
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Philosophy of Charaka-samhita (by Asokan. G)
Dialectical terms (13): Inconclusive reason (savyabhicāra) < [Chapter 7 - Logic and Dialectical Speculations]
Dialectical terms (23): Fallacies of reason (ahetu) < [Chapter 7 - Logic and Dialectical Speculations]
Dialectical terms [in Charaka philosophy] < [Chapter 7 - Logic and Dialectical Speculations]
Anumana in Indian Philosophy (by Sangita Chakravarty)
(F). Fallacy (Hetvābhāsa) < [Chapter 2 - Treatment of Anumāna in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
(D). The Fallacy of Anumāna (in Mīmāṃsā-Vedānta Philosophy) < [Chapter 4 - Treatment of Anumāna in Mīmāṃsā-Vedānta Philosophy]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 20 - Acquirement of debating devices < [Chapter VIII - The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
The validity of Anumana (inference) in Nyaya system (by Babu C. D)
Chapter 4.2.4 - The Prakaranas (d): Nyayalilavati by Vallabhacarya
Chapter 3.7 - Fallacies of Inference
Chapter 4.2.5 - The Prakaranas (e): Tarkasamgraha by Annam Bhatta
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 13 - Logical Speculations and Terms relating to Academic Dispute < [Chapter XIII - Speculations in the Medical Schools]
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha (by E. B. Cowell)
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