UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Samavaya is defined as an intimate relation of inseparable inherence that cannot be reduced to contact or conjunction. It explains bonds such as that between a substance and its qualities or between a whole and its parts. Nyaya-Vaisheshika regards this relation as eternal and unique to these specific connections. Thus the tie described in the stem is called samavaya.

Option A:
Option A, samanya, denotes universals common to many individuals and does not refer to a relation of inherence.

Option B:
Option B, vishesha, signifies ultimate particularity that differentiates indivisible entities, not the relation that binds attributes to substances.

Option C:
Option C, abhava, is non-existence and is used to account for absences rather than for the bonding of existent entities.

Option D:
Option D is correct because samavaya is the only padartha explicitly described as an ineradicable relation tying together entities that cannot exist independently.