[Advaita-l] Question: What is 'त्रैत-प्रमाण' (traita-pramANa) ?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Jun 27, 2016 2:08 AM, "Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> Hari Om,
> Pranams.
>
> "तत्त्व दृष्टि is 'मृत्तिकेत्येव सत्यम्'.  This is त्रैत प्रमाण. "
>
> "tattva dRRiShTi is 'mRRittiketyeva satyam'.  This is traita-pramANa.
>
> त्रैत-प्रमाण is third pramana, that is upamAna pramana.
>
> There are 6 pramanas in Vedanta:
> 1. प्रत्यक्ष     pratyakSha
> 2. अनुमान    anumAna
> 3. उपमान    upamAna

What in Sanskrit is 'tRteeya' is perhaps corrupted to sound 'traita' in
Hindi.  Of course there is the word 'treta' as in 'treta yuga'.

Subrahmanian. V
> 4. आगम     aagama
> 5. अर्थापत्ति   arthApatti
> 6. अनुपलब्धि  anupalabdhi
>
>
> I read this word in the book:
> अद्वैत् प्रकरण (माण्डुक्य कारिका प्रवचन by स्वामी श्री अखण्डानन्द
सरस्वती).
>
> advait prakaraNa (mANDukya kArikA pravachana
>      by svAmI shrI akhaNDAnanda sarasvatI)|
>
> This book is in Hindi. I suggest Hindi knowing sadhakaa to study this
book.
>
> thank you and regards
> -- durga prasad
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Ryan Armstrong <ryanarm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > namaste Sri Durga Prasad
> >
> > May I ask where the phrase त्रैत-प्रमाण comes from?
> > The rest of the quote is verbatim from Chaandogya 6.1.4
> > But even in the भाष्यम् of that verse, I cannot see a reference to
> > त्रैत-प्रमाण.
> >
> > I am guessing here, but Uddaalaka gives 3 examples of the correct way of
> > seeing:
> > मृत्तिक
> > लोहम्
> > कृष्णायसम्
> > So perhaps this is a reference to the three examples he gives?
> > (That is, the clay in all things made of clay, the gold in all things
made
> > of gold and the iron in all things made of iron)
> > The phrase could then mean "The three correct ways of seeing" with
> > reference to the three examples.
> >
> > Yours in Truth
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> > 2016-06-23 7:13 GMT+02:00 Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>:
> >
> >> Hari Om,
> >>
> >> I am sorry, there is a typo in my question:
> >> what is 'त्रैत-प्रमाण'?  It is not 'त्रेत-प्रमाण'
> >>
> >> thank you and regards
> >> -- durga prasad
> >>
> >>
> >> 2016-06-22 20:42 GMT-07:00 Durga Prasad Janaswamy <janaswami at gmail.com
>:
> >>
> >> > Hari Om,
> >> > Pranams.
> >> >
> >> > Read a sentence as under:
> >> >
> >> > "तत्त्व दृष्टि is 'मृत्तिकेत्येव सत्यम्'.  This is त्रैत-प्रमाण.
> >> >  वाचारम्भणम्  विकारो नामधेयम्. "
> >> >
> >> > "tattva dRRiShTi is 'mRRittiketyeva satyam'.  This is traita-pramANa.
> >> >  vAchArambhaNam  vikAro nAmadheyam. "
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Question:  What is 'त्रैत-प्रमाण'   (traita-pramANa)?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you and regards
> >> > -- durga prasad
> >> >
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> > --
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> >
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