UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Nyāya distinguishes prior non existence (prāgabhāva), posterior non existence (pradhvaṃsābhāva), mutual non existence (anyonyābhāva) and absolute non existence (atyantābhāva). Eternal absence of impossible entities such as “horns of a hare” is the standard example of atyantābhāva, since such things are absent in all places and at all times.

Option A:
Option A reverses the terms: the absence after destruction is pradhvaṃsābhāva, not prāgabhāva.

Option B:
Option B also reverses: absence before production is prāgabhāva, not pradhvaṃsābhāva.

Option C:
Option C correctly matches atyantābhāva with the eternal absence of “horns of a hare” on any real animal.

Option D:
Option D misuses anyonyābhāva; mutual non existence concerns, for example, “pot is not cloth and cloth is not pot,” not the temporal absence of a pot on a floor.