apasiddhānta

tvādghaṭādivatsamānadharmāpattāvapasiddhāntaḥ ‘(to say that the

Soul is limited) is a false conclusion, for this would lead

to assert that, from its having shape, it shares in the

properties of material substances (as in those of perishable-

ness &c.)’; or ānandābhivyaktirmukhyamokṣa iti navīnavedānti-

nāmapasiddhānta eveti dhik ‘to maintain that manifestation of

happiness is real liberation is a wrong conclusion of the

modern Vedāntists: shame (on such twaddle)’. ² (In the

Nyāya philosophy.) Logical inconsistency in argumentation,

viz. arguing so as to come in contradiction with the tenets

of one's own school; one of the twenty two nigrahasthāna

or failures in discussion which lead to the defeat of the

disputant; more especially it is thus defined: siddhāntamabhyu-

petyāniyamātkathāprasaṅgo'pasiddhāntaḥ ‘apasiddhānta is ar-

gumentation without regard to the definitions contained in

the tenets of a school which one has adopted as his own’.--

The commentator adds however that there is no apasiddhānta

or inconsistency of this kind, if one differs merely in a

special topic from the authority of his school: yastvekade-

śimatena kathāmārabhate tasya śāstrakārābhyupagamavirodhe nāpasi-

ddhāntaḥ; ‘the Saugatas’, he says, ‘do not consider logical

inconsistency as a defect, but that is another question’ (sau-

gatāstvapasiddhāntaṃ dūṣaṇaṃ na manyanta ityanyadetat). E. apa and

siddhānta.