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Epistemology of Jainas
paroksa on account of its being a variety of mati. The Anuyogadvāra and Nandy included it into perception. Jinabhadra introduced a compromise between the two views by calling the sense cognition as samvya vahāra pratyaksa, i. e. perception according to the popular usage. This introduction was accepted by Akalanka and all the later logicians.
(7) The seventh stage is purely logical. The main contribution of this stage is a parallel system of Jaina logic based on the Agamic conception. Akalanka was the dominating personality of this period. His contributions related with the Āgamic problems can be summed up as follows:
(i) Umäsvāti included inference etc., the sources of knowledge as accepted by non-Jaina systems, into both Mati and Sruta, Akalanka included them in Sruta only.
(ii) Umāsvāti gave four synonyms of Mati such as Smộti, Samjñā, Cintā and Abhinibodha. These were interpreted, so far as the different modes of the mental appearances without any special significance. Akalanka explained them as the four types of Parokşa adopted by the logical period.
(iii) Umāsvāti divided the five types of knowledge into two Pramānas, and thus indicated that the theory of Pramāṇa is. not different from the theory of jñāna as expressed in the Jaina Āgamas. Akalanka developed the idea and constructed a ful? system parallel to the non-jaina sysems, based on the Āgamis convention.
The Division according to Bhagavatı sūtra!
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1 Bhagavatı 88.2.317
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| SR No. | 006738 |
| Book Title | Jaina Epistemology |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Indra Chandra Shastri |
| Publisher | Parshwanath Vidyapith |
| Publication Year | 1990 |
| Total Pages | 516 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 21 MB |