Analogy roughly corresponds to which of the following?

AAnumiti

BUpamiti ✓ Correct

CAgama

DPratyaksha

Correct answer: (B) Upamiti

Explanation

Analogy corresponds to upamiti, the knowledge got through comparison.

Upamana is the pramana of comparison; upamiti is its resulting cognition.

Through it one learns the link between a name and its object by likeness to something known.

This mirrors reasoning by analogy in Western logic.

Hence analogy answers to upamiti among the Nyaya cognitions.

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