UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Pramiti is the knowledge-event or cognition that arises when a pramana successfully operates on a prameya for a pramata. It is characterised as true, non-contradicted and useful for practical purposes. Nyaya analyses errors by contrasting them with genuine pramiti. Thus the product of successful knowing mentioned in the stem is pramiti.

Option A:
Option A, prameya, is the external object that is known, not the cognitive state that knows it. It cannot therefore be the resultant cognition.

Option B:
Option B, pramana, is the route or instrument, such as perception or inference, which produces the cognition but is not identical with it.

Option C:
Option C, pramata, is the knowing subject who undergoes the cognitive state, not the state itself.

Option D:
Option D is correct because pramiti is precisely the awareness “this is such-and-such” that counts as valid knowledge. It completes the fourfold structure of knower, means, object and knowledge.