Which of the following is/are the example/s of the ‘pratyakshya’ (perception) ?
I. Due to low depression belt in Bay of Bengal it will rain tomorrow in Maharashtra.
II. Compared to today’s rainbow yesterday’s rainbow was more beautiful.
Neither I nor II
In Indian logic, pratyaksha or perception is valid knowledge that arises from direct contact of a sense organ with its object (indriyartha sannikarsha). It is immediate and present: what is known must be before the senses at that moment. Knowledge obtained by reasoning from a sign is anumana (inference), and knowledge of something not now present, recalled from past experience, is smriti (memory), which the Nyaya school does not count as perception.
Statement I predicts rain tomorrow in Maharashtra from a low depression belt in the Bay of Bengal. Tomorrow's rain is not before the senses; it is reached by reasoning from a cause to its effect, which is purvavat anumana, an inference and not perception. Statement II compares today's rainbow with yesterday's rainbow. Even if today's rainbow is seen, yesterday's rainbow is not present to the senses and is only remembered, so the judgement depends on memory and comparison rather than on direct sense-object contact.
Treating I alone as perception fails because it is a clear case of inference. Treating II alone as perception fails because the comparison requires recollection of a past object. Accepting both fails for the same reasons. Neither statement is an instance of pure, direct perception.
Hence, Neither I nor II.
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(i) Nyaya
(ii) Buddhists
(iii) Purva-Mimamsa
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(i) Nyaya
(ii) Buddhists
(iii) Purva-Mimamsa
Code :
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