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Epistemology of Jainas
.contribution of Niryuktis. Perhaps, he did not attach aoy value to the division of Sthānānga, which follows its own plan and does not care for the objective basis for classification. Sometimes, it ignores essential factors simply to keep the har. mony of number. As a matter of fact the Sthānānga is a collection which includes many notions of the later period also.
In the logical period Pratyaksa is divided into Vikala and Sakala which means nokevala and kevala of the Sthānānga.
The following points deserve attention in the above division
(i) It divides Srutanihssta into two varieties of Vyāñjanā. vagraha and Arthāvagraha, while according to the general .conception it should be as follows:
Sruta Niḥssta
Avargha
ībā
Avāya
Dhāraņā
Vyañjanāvagraha Arthāvagraha
The ommision of four-fold division of Avagraha, ībā etc. and its direct coming to the subdivisions of Vyañjapāvagraha and Arthāvagraha is accountable to its style of the chapter, where everything is classified in twofold division. We cannot assign it any philosophical significance.
(ii) Secondly, it gives Arthāvagraha and Vyaõjanāvagraha as the divisions of Aśruta-Niḥssta also. According to the commentary it should have the following order :
Aśruta Nihssta
Indriya-Janya
Anindriya Janya
Avagraha
Tha
Avāya
Dhāraņā
Pāriņāmiki
í Autpattik! Vainayik! Karmajā Vyañjanāvagraha Arthāvagraha
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