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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JAINA THEORIES OF REALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
it lays itself open to the combined evils' of both Identity-view and Difference-view.
The initial error of ubhayavāda is, from the Jaina point of view, the acceptance of the idea that dravya and guņa (paryāya) are completely independent” despite the alleged 'dependence' of the latter (guna) on the former.
Besides robbing dravya and paryāya of their mutual dependence as complementary elements in an entity, this idea of absolute independence between dravya and paryāya leads the Vaiseșika to resort to a metaphysical tour de force, viz.,
1.
Referring to the fictitiousness (kalpanāk?ta) and falsity (mrsārthată) of the Identity-view (abhedavāda) and Differenceview (bhedavāda or paryāyavāda or dravyavāda) individually Arcața observes :
abhedasyāparityāge bhedaḥ syāt kalpanākştah / tasyāvitathabhāve vä syūdabhede mȚşārthata //
HBT, p. 106, kā. 20. Although the substance of this criticism against the two extreme views is the same as that of Siddhasena's criticism in his gā, 49 (supra, p. 187, f.n. 5), Arcața treats the Jaina, as already noted, as the main target of this as well as of the following charge:
bhedābhedoktadoşaś ca tayor iştah katham na va/
pratyekaṁ ye prasajyante dvayor bhāvāḥ katham na te // Ibid., ka. 25 (for a slight variation of the second line of this ka., as quoted by Hemacandra, see PMHS, p. 29, and p. 804, line 18).
Both Hemacandra and Municandra agree with this criticism against ubhayavāda: dravyaparyāyavādayoś ca yo dosah sa ubhayavāde’pi samānaḥ. PMHS, p. 29. idamuktam bhavati.. kevaläbhedapakşe abhedapakşe ca ye prāgeva nirūpitā dosas ta ubhayapakşābhyupagamaṁ sutarāṁ prāpnivanti / AJPV on
Haribhadra's com. on AJP, Vol. I, p. 13. 2. dravyagunayor asankirnasvabhāvatvāt / HBT, p. 107.
inadibhyo vyāvsttarūpāņi / TBV, p. 656. Cf. also supra, p. 187, fn. 1.