Philosophy of Charaka-samhita
by Asokan. G | 2008 | 88,742 words
Ayurveda, represented by Charaka and Sushruta, stands first among the sciences of Indian intellectual tradition. The Charaka-samhita, ascribed to the great celebrity Charaka, has got three strata. (1) The first stratum is the original work composed by Agnivesha, the foremost of the six disciples of Punarvasu Atreya. He accomplished the work by coll...
Dialectical terms (29): Dodging with a wrong reason (hetvantara)
If the disputant dodges a genuine reason by giving a wrong reason, it is called hetvantara.[1] The Nyāya-sūtra describes it in a different way from this. There, it consists in investing the reason with a particular character, when the reason of general character is opposed.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
hetvantaraṃ nāma prakṛtahetau vācye yadvikṛtahetumāh. CS,Vimāna - sthāna, VIII. 63.
[2]:
aviśeṣoktau hetau pratiṣiddhe viśeṣamicchato hetvantaraṃ. Nyāyasūtra., V. ii. 6.