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
between themselves the entire content of the real, although they display a distinctive (visista) structural and functional individuality-not found in the individual constituent elements--in their combination. This is illustrated by the oft-quoted instance of Narasimha' (the Man-lion): As the name itself suggests, Narasimha is a combination of nara (man) and simha (lion). Nevertheless, it indicates a being which is somehow different, in its combination, from the parts severally entering into its making, although it is impossible to get such a being outside the parts in question.
Similarly jaggery (guda) and ginger (nägaram or sunthi) are said to cause phlegm (kaphahetuh) and bile (pitta
1. Durveka explains this being as: hiranyakaśipuvadhārthanirmita
narasimhātmalah / HBTA, p. 343. 2. Cf. na naro nara eveti na simhaḥ sinha eva vā /
sabdavijianakāryānām bhedājjātyantaram hi tat// na naraḥ simharūpatvat na siṁho nararūpatah/
sāmānādhikaranyena narasimhaḥ prakīrtitaḥ// Quoted in AJP, Vol. I, p. 71, f.n. 1 and NKC, Vol. I, p. 369. The first verse is quoted also in Siddhasena Gani's Com. on Tattvārthadhigamasutra, Kapadia's edn., p. 377, as well as in JTVS, p. 11 (with slight variations in the last work). The verse following it in JTVS as well as in TRD and all the verses preceding it in TRD may also be seen.
For a variant verse in which the same analogy is expressed, see SM (text), p. 20, and TPSJ, p. 79. Besides TPSJ see also TSS, kās. 325, 1733-1736 (together with PK on all these käs.), HBT, p. 104, and HBTA, P. 343 (in all of which reference is made to it either for a statement of, or a criticism against, the Jaina position). This analogy is cited in a few other non-Jaina works (e. g. NVVS, p. 261, the tippaņi against p. 88, line 16), often in somewhat different contexts. See also AGAV, pp. 103 and 108, TSV, p. 435, PKM, p. 536, TRD, p. 245, AJP, Vol. I, pp. 65, 77 and 302, SJPT, pp. 214 and 215, AVV, p. 147, NVVS, pp. 87-88 and SM (text), p. 151.