Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study)
by Diptimani Goswami | 2014 | 61,072 words
This page relates ‘Different types of Relation’ of the study on the Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories with special reference to the Tarkasangraha by Annambhatta. Both Nyaya and Vaisesika are schools of ancient Indian Philosophy, and accepted in their system various padarthas or objects of valid knowledge. This study investigates how the Tarkasamgraha reflects these categories in the combined Nyayavaisesika school.
Different types of Relation
Broadly relation can be divided into two types, viz.,–
- Vṛttiniyāmaka (occurrence-exacting) and
- Vṛttyaniyāmaka (non-occurrence-exacting).
Those relations which have roughly the notion that something occurs in something else is called Vṛttiniyāmaka relation.
Vṛttiniyāmaka is also of three kinds—
Viśeṣaṇatā is again subdivided into abhāviya-viśeṣaṇatā or relation pertaining to the non-existence and kālika viśeṣaṇatā or relation of temporal qualification.[1]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Ibid., p. 58