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INTRODUCTION
authority the old scriptures and advocated the doctrine of Succession on their authority. Now the Digambara scholars, having no regard for the scriptures, supported their doctrine merely on the strength of logic and argument. These Digam bara scholars thus had no very great regard for the scriptural authority accepted by Swetām bara pandits. With all this it should be regarded that there was discussion about these doctrines in Swetāmabara literature. The same discussion was taken by Siddhasena and was developed on the strength of logic. Siddhasena had studied all the Šāstras and, in course of his studies, he was convinced that this doctrine of Succession that is the Kramavāda though old and advocated by the scriptures could not appeal to reason so much as the Yugapad Vāda or the doctrine of Simultaneity supported by the Digam baras. Instead of merely accepting this Yoga padvāda he went one step further and said that in Kevalopayoga, Jñāna and Darsana are not merely Simultaneous but are absolutely indentical But though intellectually he was convinced of the truth of bis doctrine, he was perforce compelled to have recourse to the authority of the scriptures, for those were the times in which nothing was accepted unless it was corroborated by the scriptures, He, therefore, addressed himself to the task of finding support for his doctrine in the scriptures themselves, and tried to interpret some of the passages in the scriptures in such a way that they would support his new doctrine of Abhedavāda. Standing on this firm ground of scriptures, the advocates of Abbedavāda came to be a host of mighty opponents of
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