There is smoke on the distant hill. Since smoke is always accompanied by fire, the hill must have fire too. According to the classical Indian school of logic, which of the terms corresponds to the Sadhya, that is the major term, in the above argument?

Fire is the sadhya, the major term to be proved on the hill.

The paksha or minor term is the hill, the locus under discussion.

The hetu or middle term is smoke, the reason present in the hill.

The sadhya is what is inferred to reside in the paksha, namely fire.

So in this smoke-fire inference the probandum fire is the major term.