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72 THE JAINA THEORY OF OMNISCIENCE : CHRONOLOGY
omniscience. So far as the logical side is concerned, the names of Samantabhadra, Siddhasena, Akalarka, Vidyānanda, Prabhācandra, Anantakirti, Hemacandra, Yaśovijaya, Vādibha Simha, Dharmabhūşana etc. are important. Though the concept of omniscience was at first a religious dogma, later it acquired a rational status. The Jaina logicians had to fight the Mimāṁsakas on the one hand and the Buddhists on the other in their defence of the possibility and desirability of omniscience as a religious and philosophical ideal.
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