1.1.29
Nyāya Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.29
समानतन्त्रसिद्धः परतन्त्रासिद्धः प्रतितन्त्रसिद्धान्तः
samānatantrasiddhaḥ paratantrāsiddhaḥ pratitantrasiddhāntaḥ
The line
A tenet of one system is what one's own system has established and another system has not.
नेपालीमा
एउटा दर्शनको सिद्धान्त त्यो हो जुन आफ्नै दर्शनले सिद्ध गरेको छ र अर्को दर्शनले गरेको छैन।
Where it sits
pratitantra from 1.1.27 is the kind being defined. siddha here continues siddhānta (सिद्धान्त) from 1.1.26.
Split: samāna-tantra-siddhaḥ (समान-तन्त्र-सिद्धः) + para-tantra-asiddhaḥ (पर-तन्त्र-असिद्धः) + pratitantra-siddhāntaḥ (प्रतितन्त्र-सिद्धान्तः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| samāna-tantra-siddhaḥ (समान-तन्त्र-सिद्धः) | nominative singular, masculine | established in one's own system |
| para-tantra-asiddhaḥ (पर-तन्त्र-असिद्धः) | nominative singular, masculine | not established in another system |
| pratitantra-siddhāntaḥ (प्रतितन्त्र-सिद्धान्तः) | nominative singular, masculine | a tenet particular to one system |
The phrases
samānatantra (समानतन्त्र) is the system of the same party, the home doctrine. A tenet is siddha there. paratantra is the other party's system, where that same tenet is asiddha, not established.
This is how a school mark works. One side may prove from it. The other side does not grant it at the outset. It is still a siddhānta (सिद्धान्त), but only prati tantram, system by system.
Sanskrit in this line
paratantrāsiddhaḥ (परतन्त्रासिद्धः) is para-tantra plus a nañ (नञ्) on siddha, so the a of asiddha replaces nothing that would lengthen the ā (आ). Both adjectives are nominative masculine with the predicate.
Say it back
Contrast the two compounds: samānatantrasiddha (समानतन्त्रसिद्ध) and paratantrāsiddha (परतन्त्रासिद्ध).
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1.1.30. A topic-tenet is one on whose establishment another topic gets established.