Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge

SR No.: 001608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Y J Padmarajiah
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 444
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Epistemology, & Anekantvad
File Size: 23 MB

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CHAPTER V
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Touching upon the absence of any contradiction in the co-existence of unity and diversity in the same object, Kumārila observes elsewhere : “As in the case of the variegated colour, we can optionally fix upon any one of the various colours (without any contradiction), simply because the object (colour) is of a variegated character-so, in the same manner we could fix upon the diversity or unity..."
Finally, it is significant to note that Kumārila recommends a middle position' (madhyasthatā) between the two extremes
na nāśena vină soko notpadena vina sukham /
sthityā vina na madhyasthyam..........// Cf. the following kā. of Sāmantabhadra :
ghatamaulisuvarnarthi nāśotpadasthitişvayam /
śokapramodamādhyasthyam jano yāti sahetukam // AMS, kā. 59. See also VVas and ASA thereon.
In another kā., following the above one, the same idea is illustrated by a different analogy. Ibid., pp. 30-31.
Elucidating the word "trayātmakam" in kā. 22 cited above Parthasārathimiśra writes: trayātmakam utpattisthitivināśadharmatmakam-ityarthah / NR on kā. 22, p. 619, and Bhattaputra Jayamiśra also adds, in the same context : tasmad bhangotpadasthityātmakarūpatrayayuktar vastu pratīyate/SVTJ, p. 84.
Mallişeņa draws our attention, in this connection, to Patañjali's theory of nityānitya (the abiding and the changing) nature of substance (dharmi), and its (dharmiņah) threefold modification (trividhaḥ khalvayam dharmiņaḥ pariņāmo dharmalaksanavasthārūpah), and, points out how the latter (parināma) is accepted to be "at once distinct from and identical with the former" (dharma). Vide SM (text), p. 16, and ibid. (notes), p. 46, where Dhruva gives an extract from Vyasa-Bhasya on
Patañjali-Sūtra, III. 13. 1. SVJha, p. 292. The kä, is as follows:
citratvad vastuno'pyevam bhedabhedāvadhāranam/
sāmānyāṁse tu niskrsya bhedo yena prasādhyate //
Pārthasārathimiśra, commenting on this kā., observes : nānāvarne hi vastuni ya eva varno niskļşya darśayitum işyate sa eva Śakyo darśayitum, evar nānārūpe vastuni sarvasya bhedabhedādeḥ sambhava iti / MSV, p. 561, NR on kā. 58.