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 VII
A relation' is 'conjunctive"" (samyoga-sambandha) when the relata are 'separable" (yutasiddha), and 'necessary' or 'intimate' (samavāya-sambandha) when they are 'inseparable' (ayutasiddha)".
The strict non-admission of any internality between even the 'inseparable' relata under samaväya is a character
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1. dvividhaḥ sambandhaḥ samyogaḥ samavayaśceti / TB, Pt. I, p. 5. 2. For conjunction as a 'transient' connection and its threefold distinction, see Mis. Es., Vol. II, p. 302, and BP with SMV, kās. 114-116.
The relata are 'separable' (yuta) in the sense that they were separate before being conjoined, e.g., the hand and the book (hasta-pustaka-samyoga); aprăptayos tu ya praptiḥ saiva samyoga iritaḥ / BP, kā. 114, and they can be again separated at our will. Conjunction is, therefore, a purely adventitious or external
relation.
4. 'Necessary' or 'intimate' relation seems to be a more satisfactory translation of samavaya than 'inherence', although the latter is more widely current, for 'inherence' is suggestive of an internal character, whereas samavaya is, as indicated in the next paragraph, an external, though inseparable (aprthaksiddha) relation.
5. tatrayutasiddhayoḥ sambandhaḥ samavayaḥ / TB, Pt. I, p. 5. Also see SDA, p. 278, ka. 66, and TRD thereon.
For the meanings of 'ayutasiddha' and 'yutasiddha' as well as for the gradual widening of the scope of the meaning of 'ayutasiddha' from its original and narrow application to the relation of the container and the contained (adhārādheyabhāva) to a five-fold one, see PDS, with NK, pp. 35-36.
6. Internality should mean, according to some critics, identity (ătmarupa) of the relation with the relata. This would mean that the relation would be a constitutive or 'intrinsic' element in the being of the relata. (Cf. Bradley: "But every relation, as we have learnt, essentially penetrates into the being of its terms, and, in this sense, is intrinsical; in other words, every relation must be a relation of content." AR, p. 347. Also cf. "We should then have to ask if, in the end, every possible relation does not involve a something IN