UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Prameya denotes the thing that is known when a pramana operates, for example the pot perceived or the fire inferred. It stands as the intentional object towards which cognition is directed. In Nyaya analysis of knowledge, prameya is one of the basic components alongside pramana, pramata and pramiti. Thus the object mentioned in the stem is called prameya.

Option A:
Option A, pramana, is the means or instrument of knowing, such as perception or inference, not the object that is grasped. Confusing the two collapses the distinction between channel and content.

Option B:
Option B is correct because prameya literally means that which is to be known, capturing the role of the object in the epistemic situation. It helps clarify that knowledge always has some thing as its focus.

Option C:
Option C, pramiti, refers to the cognition or knowledge itself, such as the awareness “this is a pot.” It is an internal event rather than the external object.

Option D:
Option D, pramata, is the subject or knower who experiences the cognition. While related, the knower is not the object that is being known.