Laukika-nyāya-kośa /8

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of immense inspiration and help to me in the preparation of

 
of immense inspiration and help to me in the preparation of
this work.
 

 
The work of Colonel Jacob was an ideal before me. I

have adopted his discussion (with slight changes) in

interpreting the Nyaāyas. He has taken illustrations from

various works like 'Vaācaspatya', the works of Satyavrata

Sāmāśrami and Raghunaātha Varmaā. He has appended a list

of Nyāyas, arranged in alphabetical order in Devanagari script.

One more book has been recently published which has

discussed Nyayas from the āyas from the <error>Mahābhāṣva</error><fix>Mahābhāṣya</fix> of Patanjali.
 

 
The Nyāyas may be classified mainly under the following

topics:-
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1. Nyāyas related to mountains etc.

2. Nyayas related to ladies.
 
āyas related to ladies.
3. Nyaāyas related to rural situations.
 

4. Nyāyas like Arundhatidarśan nyāya,
 

5. Nyayas related to social conditions.
 
āyas related to social conditions.
6. Nyāyas like Brāhmaṇa Vasiṣṭha nyāya.
 

7. Nyāyas like Danḍāpūpa nyāya.
 

8. Nyāyas related to food articles etc.
 

9. Nyāyas related to animals and birds
 

10. Nyāyas like Gobalivardanyāya, Hansaksirodaknyāya.
 

11. Nyaāyas like Khalekapota nyaya.
 
āya.
12. Nyaāyas concerning deities.
 

13. Nyaāyas concerning SaŚāstra conventions.
 

14. Nyāyas like Nāgṛhitavisśeṣaṇa nyāya, Sandansa nyāya.
śa nyāya.
15. Nyāyas related to Agriculture etc.
 

 
The early Śäāstra writers have added the word Nyaya to
āya to
certain epigrammatic Śāstra rules, like a fa
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तदङ्गम्।