apratiṣedha

prohibition, as of a religious act; e. g. in the Jaimini Sūtra:

apratiṣedho vā darśanādiḍāyāṃ syāt. Comp. also paryudāsa.

² Absence of negation or contradiction, non-denying (as of

an argument alleged); e. g. in the Nyāya Sūtras: śabdārtha-

vyavasthānādapratiṣedhaḥ; or pratiṣedhānupapatteśca pratiṣeddhavyāprati-

ṣedhaḥ; or in the Vedānta Sūtra: vijñānādibhāve vā tadapra-

tiṣedhaḥ. ³ Non-exception (as to a rule); e. g. in the Vārttika

to Pāṇ. VIII. 4. 3.: apratiṣedho vā yathā sarvanāmasaṃjñāyām.

⁴ A bad or invalid objection (against an argument), used

frequently in this sense in the Nyāya Sūtras; e. g. gandhatvā-

dyavyatirekādgandhādīnāmapratiṣedhaḥ ‘(what is said before) is an

invalid objection, for odours (scents &c.) have no other

nature than that of odour’. ⁵ A useless exception, an ex-

ception which need not have been made; e. g. when Kātyā-

yana criticises the mentioning of the word nyubja in Pāṇini's

rule VII. 3. 61.: nyubjeḥ kartṛtvādapratiṣedhaḥ (Patanjali: anarthakaḥ

pratiṣedho'pratiṣedhaḥ); or when a successor of Kātyāyana

criticises the latter for finding fault with Pāṇ. VI. 4. 110.,

he says of the pratiṣedha of Kātyāyana that it is an apratiṣedha;

and in the same manner he turns into ridicule the criticism

of Kātyāyana on Pāṇ. I. 1. 22.: ghasaṃjñāyāṃ nadītare pratiṣedhaḥ

by substituting for the latter words nadītare'pratiṣedhaḥ,

when Patanjali gives the same explanation and Kaiyyaṭa

observes: na pratiṣedha iti pratiṣedhanakriyā nañā niṣidhyate .

bhāṣyakārastu vastvarthaṃ vyācaṣṭe.--E. a neg. and pratiṣedha.