शाखाचंद्रन्याय

A dictionary, Marathi and English

A Sanskrit phrase adduced as a simile or an illustration when an object seen or a matter debated has its position or relation assigned to it as at, on, in consistency with &c. a particular object or matter, simply from the appearance of contiguity or connection which, under one line of view or one train of reasoning, it ordinarily presents; whilst actually and truly it is remote from it so widely as to preclude altogether affirmation of connection. Ex. समुद्रांत सूर्य बुडतो ही शाखाचंद्रन्यायेंकरून उक्ति आहे We say the sun sinks in the ocean by the same law as we say the moon is upon a bough of a tree; speaking in both cases from the appearance presented.

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आकाशांतील चंद्र दाखवावयाचा असल्यास एखाद्या झाडाच्या खांदीपासून त्याचें अंतर सांगून दाखवितात
यावरुन जवळच्या वस्तूवरुन एखाद्या वस्तूचा बोध करणें.