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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distinct entity co-existing with, and connecting, the relata in a relational situation.
An entirely opposite view to that of the Naiyāyika is held by the Buddhist who maintains, with the
as well as of relations in general, will all come in, as will be seen in the sequel, for sharp criticisms at the hands of the Jaina and the non-Jaina thinkers. The Jaina does go some way with the Naiyāyika in so far as he (the Jaina) concedes relation
as an objective fact, though not as an independent entity. 1. Dharmakirti—with the exception of śāntarakṣita and his
lucid commentator, Kamalaśīla, who have addressed themselves to an acute criticism of a part of the problem, viz., Samavāya (vide TSS, kās. 823-866, and PK. thereon)-is the only Buddhist thinker who has developed a critique on the problem of relations in his works (e. g., PVD with VM, pp. 370-374) particularly in Sambandhapariksa (see HML, p. 319) from which 22 kārikäs have been preserved, in Sanskrit, by Prabhācandra in PKM (p. 504 ff.). While criticising Dharmakīrti, Prabhācandra adds, here and there, a few short explanatory comments. A few of these karikās are found in the brief polemical accounts of Vidyānandin (TSV, pp. 148-149), Vadidevasüri (SRK, pp. 812 ff.) and of Prabhācandra himself in his other work (NKC, Vol. I, pp. 305-309).
An account of the twenty-four kinds of relations (paccayas), as expounded in the seventh and the last work of the Buddhist Päli canon, Abhidhamma Pitaka, has been given, in Pāli, in The Patthanuddesa Dipani (The Buddhist Philosophy of Relations), by Ledi Sayadaw, E. T., by S. V. Nyana, pub. by U. Ba Thah and Da Tin Tin, 1935, Rangoon. An earlier account by the same writer (spelt differently as Ledi Sadaw), given in course of three "letters", E. T. by S. L. Aung, is published under the title On the Philosophy of Relations, JPTS, 1915-1916, Ed. by Mrs. Rhys Davids, 1916, London. Two other accounts of the same topic are:--The Compendium of Philosophy (Abhidhammattha-sangaha), Pt. VIII, E. T. by S. L. Aung, Ed. by Mrs. Rhys Davids, PTS, 1910, London; and the article on "Relations" (Buddhist), by G. A. F. Rhys Davids, ERE. All these accounts deal with the subject of relations mainly from