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1 SIDDHASENA DIVĀKARA
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circulated amongst the students of Jaina philosophy in those times. The stock arguments for and against these two doctrines were received as legacy by Jinabhadra but he in his turn added some of his arguments in support of his doctrine and arranged them in a proper order and specially composed big works to establish his own. doctrines advancing arguments therein to refute, the doctrine of Abhedavāda. Now this systematisation of the doctrine of Kramavāda was not attempted by any of his predecessors. It is in this sense that we have to interpret the remarks of Abhayadeva that Jinabhadra was the first exponent of the doctrine of Kramavāda ;? not that the doctrine originated from hin, but he systematised that doctrine and supported it with cogent arguments. The question arises in this connection is whether Siddhasena was the first exponent of the doctrine of Abhedavāda or whether he was the first to systematise this doctrine in his own works. Looking to Jinabhadra's two works Viśeşanavati and Bhāşya, in which there is a complete refutation of the doctrine of Abhedavāda it seems quite clear that Jinabhadra had before him no one particular individual but quite a host of Ācāryas who advocated the doctrine of Abhedavāda; for instance, he mentions one Ācārya by the word 'Kecit another by the word 'Anye' and others by some other words; he takes the opinion of one Acārya at a time, levels his arguments against that
1 S. T. p. 608.
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