[359] निर्नेयः ascertainment or determination of truth; the result of evidence and of reasoning.
[360] बादः discussion defined as the speech of one desirous to know the truth.
In Gotama’s arrangement, THE TENTH is called Kat´ha, disputation, or conference of interlocutors, maintaining adverse positions.
[361] जल्पः debate of disputants contending for victory.
[362] वि तण्ड cavil, or controversy, wherein the disputant seeks to confute his opponent, without offering to support a position of his own.
[363] हेत्वाभास semblance of a reason; it is the non causa pro causa of the logicians.
[364] छलं perversion and misconstruction; it is of three sorts: 1. verbal misconstruing of what is ambiguous; 2. perverting, into a literal sense, what is said in a metaphorical one; 3. generalising what is particular.
[365] نوكنبل. In the Persian text an example of it is given, which I have not thought necessary to translate.
[366] जातिः a futile answer, or self-confuting reply. No less than twenty-four are enumerated.
[367] निग्रह It is the termination of a controversy. Of this, likewise, no fewer than twenty-two distinctions are specified.