Adhyāropa-Apavāda (AA) Nyāya listed in a few collections of Maxims

[V Subrahmanian]

The Adhyāropa-Apavāda Nyāya is very well known to Vedantins. Shankaracharya mentions this Nyāya as the one adapted by the knowers of the (Vedantic) tradition: Shankara cites a line from an earlier Vedāntin's work in the BGB 13.13: 

तथा हि सम्प्रदायविदां वचनम् — ‘अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां निष्प्रपञ्चं प्रपञ्च्यते’ (?) इति ।

 This line is there in the Uttaragītā bhāṣya (attributed to Gaudapādāchārya) as a prelude to the verse 1.7:  — ‘अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां निष्प्रपञ्चं प्रपञ्च्यते’ ( ? ) इति ।। UG 2.45 manaso hyamanī bhāva also in Mānḍukya Kārikā. We find this nyāya (maxim) listed in the collection of Nyāyas by certain authors.  The details are available in this file:

https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/aa-listed-in-books-of-maxims.pdf

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subbu