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
Buddhist would argue, there is no need for a relation since such absolutely independent existents need no relating entity for the simple reason that they are, by hypothesis, severally self-sufficient entities and, therefore, admit of no dependence whatsoever (pāratantryābhāvāt)?. Such an imposition of dependence on two independent entities would, in Buddhist view, result in introducing contradiction in an otherwise relationless situation. If, on the other hand, the dependence is argued to be between two entities which are yet to come into being (anişpannayoḥ), then it would be absurd to talk about relating two entities which are yet to be."
The second hypothesis of the interpenetration or interfusion of the relata fares, according to Dharmakirti, no better, since here also, as in the other case, the argument is beset with a contradiction: the interfusing relata should, on this
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1. pāratantryavihinatvāt siddhasyetyapare viduh / TSV, p. 146, kā. 10,
Vidyānanda uses "siddha' and 'asiddha' also fornispanna and 'anişpanna' respectively. prathamapakşe kim asau nişpannayoh sambandhinoh syad ani$pannayor vā? na tävad anişpannayoh, svarūpasyaivāsattvāt Śaśāśvavişānavat nişpannayoś ca pāratantryabhāvād asambandha eva /
Having thus stated the Buddhist argument Prabhācandra corroborates with the following kä. from Dharmakirti :
pāratantryain hi sambandhah siddhe kā paratantrată /
tasmāt sarvasya bhāvasya sambandho násti tattvatah // PKM, spd., p. 504, kā. 1. Also see SKR, p. 812.
Vidyānanda refers to another possible view which is not so much a third as the combined view of the two stated above. This combined view is also repudiated by the Buddhist as being liable to the defects of both the views together (pakşadvayabhāvidosānuşangat). Vide PVD, and MV thereon. III. 236, and TSV, p. 146.