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Laukikanyāyakośa
(An Anthology of Popular Maxims)
 
The word Nyāya has so many connotative facets in
Sanskrit and in other Indian languages that one has to ascertian
the exact connotation of Nyāya in the concerned work.
Though Nyāya often means justice, it expresses many more
meanings. Infact, Apte's Dictionary has assigned the following
twelve sets of meaning to this word.
 
(i) Method, manner
(ii) Fitness, propriety
(iii) Low, justice, Virtue, equity, righteousness.
(iv) A law suit,
(v) Judicial sentence,
(vi) Policy, good government
(vii) A popular maxim
(viii) An opposite illustration,
(ix) Vedic account.
(x) A universal rule.
(xi) System of Hindu philosophy founded by the sage Gautama.
(xii) Syllogism-An epithet of Vișņu
 
The word is well-known in the sense of "the science of
Logic". It is also well-known as a group of words conveying
some incidents or events, based on worldly dealings or