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paraphernelia of disciples and a show of versatality a man can be considered as an Ācārya. He bas also shown the way to know the inner nature of things. He has also stated in plain words that quite a mass of religious acts, done without a study of Šāstras Jaina and Non-Jaina, is absolutely useless and that knowledge coupled with religious acts alone is able to accomplish the desired object. Finally, he has paid very high compliments to the preachings of Lord Mahāvîra and thus ended his work.
In the third chapter of San mati, the genius of Siddbasena is shining at every step. First of all, along with the two famous view-points of Dravyārthika and Paryāyārthika, he has started the discussion as to whether Gunirthika can be regarded as a third Naya. This discnssion is not at all found in any of the works preceding Sanmati Vidyānanda in his Tattvārtha has taken up the discussion on this point, but it, obviously, has been inspired by the study of Sanmati. Siddbasena again, in this third chapter, has taken up the dispute between faith and reason and assigned limitations of the Hetuvāda and the Ahetu vāda. This discussion is really a very high compliment to the remarkable genius of Siddhasena. Here also, incidentally, he has seriously attacked those persons who regard themselves as men of versatile genius on the strength of superficial study of Jaina Sastras, those persons again who regard themselves as great simply because they have a host of disciples, those persons again who consider themselves as scholars merely by committing to memory the Sūtras in the scriptures, without
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