aBāva | अBआव | aBAva

a-Bāva | अ-Bआव | m. nonexistence, nullity, absence
non-entity, negation (the seventh category in Kaṇāda's system)
proof from nonexistence (one of the six pramāṇas in Vedānta phil. [‘since there are no mice, therefore there must be cats here’] See pramāṛa | प्रमाऋअ |)
annihilation, death.

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