apoha

1 The removal of doubt by the exercise of the reasoning faculty.

2 Reasoning, arguing.

E. apa reverse, ūha to reason, and ghañ affix; opposed to doubt or deliberation.

Jaiminīya-nyāyam.: viśiṣṭasya yadādānamanyāpohena vastunaḥ .

arthāntaranyāsavatī parivṛttirasau yathā. Comp. apohana and

vyapoha. ² Reasoning away, i. e. a reasoning which removes

one object from another or disconnects two objects; the re-

verse of ūha, the reasoning which establishes a relation

between two objects, i. e. which connects them (for the de-

tailed explanation of the latter term see, however, s. v. ūha);

e. g. on the words of the Bhāgav. Purāṇa which speak of

the difference between Soul and Body: ‘dehastu sarvasaṃghāto

jagattasthuriti dvidhā . atraiva mṛgyaḥ puruṣo neti netītyatattya-

jan’ Śrīdharasvāmin observes: neti netītyanyāpohe kriya-

māṇe &c.; or in the Siddhāntamuktāvalī: apoharūpo nīla-

tvādirvijñānadharma iti cet . na . nīlatvādīnāṃ viruddhānāme-

kasminnasamāveśāt ‘are blue, yellow and similar qualities

such properties of knowledge as must be disconnected from

it by reasoning? no, for contrary notions as blue, yellow &c.

cannot take place (at the same time in the same thing)’;

the Dwandwa ūhāpoha ‘positive and negative reasoning,

reasoning which connects and reasoning which disconnects’

is therefore also used in the sense of ‘thorough or clever

reasoning, sharpness or cleverness of intellect’; e. g. in

Bharatasena on a verse of the Bhaṭṭik.: ūhāpohakṣamairna śukā-

divadadhītavaktṛtvam; or Mādhava says of a work on car-

pentry: ūhāpohakuśalapuruṣotprekṣāmūlā takṣasmṛtirna vedaṃ kalpa-

yituṃ prabhavati.--Hemachandra calls apoha one of the eight

qualities of intellect (śuśrūṣā śravaṇaṃ caiva grahaṇaṃ dhāraṇaṃ tathā

ūho'poho'rthavijñānaṃ tattvajñānaṃ ca dhīguṇāḥ), but this piece

of psychology seems to belong to him as exclusively as his

definition of apāna. E. ūh with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ.

Disconnecting reasoning, MBh. 13.

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m. (-haḥ)

1. The removal of doubt by the exercise of the reasoning
faculty.

2. Reasoning, arguing.

E. apa reverse, ūha to reason, and
ghañ affix; opposed to doubt or deliberation.

— 1) Vertreibung , Verdrängung , Entfernung SARVAD. 13,18. Comm. zu NYĀYAS. 5,1,37.

— 2) Bestreitung , Absprechung , Negirung.