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 (31): Points of defeat (nigrahasthāna)
Points of defeat are the grounds of defeat. Caraka says that it occurs when an argument of the disputant is not understood by the assembly constituted by learned members. Caraka has already discussed the various types of points of defeat in the course of his discussion. The Nyāya-sūtra describes it as the inability to refute an opponent's thesis or to establish one's own thesis refuted by the opponent.[1] Twenty-two kinds of such nigrahasthānas are enumerated in the Nyāya-sūtra.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
vipatipattirapratipattiśa nigrahasthānaṃ. Nyāyasūtra., I. ii. 19.
[2]:
pratijñāhāniḥ pratijñāntaraṃ pratijñāvirodhaḥ pratijñāsaṃnyāso hetvantaramarthāntaraṃ nirarthakamavijñātārthamapārthakamapraptakālaṃ nyūnamadhikaṃ punaruktamananubhāṣaṇamajñānamapratibhā vikṣepo matānujñā paryanuyojyopekṣaṇaṃ niranuyojyānuyogo'pasiddhānto hetvābhāsāśca nigrahasthānāni.Nyāyasūtra., V. ii. 1.