Jaina Epistemology

SR No.: 006738
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

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Epistemology of Jainas
by Akalanka. Its originality, authenticity and profoundness lies in the numerous references from other systems. No direct influence from any other Ācārya is discernible in Vādirāja. His elegant style, minute observations and clear cut analysis can be seen no where else. He does not say anything which he has not mastered himself. He does aot represent the other systems incompletely as is the case with many critiques of opponent systems. He is quite faithful to them also. He alludes to authoritative works only for his references and refutations, His arguments are sound and convincing. We have already stated the arrangement of subject matter and chapters in Nyāyaviniscaya. Vivaraņı also follows the same. JINEŚVARA (1095 A. D.):
He is the author of a Vārtika known as Pramālaksma. It is the first Vārtika in Svetāmbara literature. It refutes the defini. tion and divisions of Pramāņı as held by other systems and establishes his own views. This is another work representing the school of Siddhasena. CANDRAPRABHA SŪRI (12th cent.) :
He has written a small treatise known as Prameyaratnakosa It defines the philosophical terms in a brief form.
ANANTAVĪRYA (13th cent.):
He is a contemporary of Candraprabha. He has written a commentary on ParIkşāmukha, with moderate size. The work is known as Prameyaratnamālā. Its style is lucid and clear. It is very useful to understand the logic of Akalarka in a simple and easy way.
DEVASŪRI VĀDIN (1087-1170) :
Though Siddhasena had laid the foundation of the Tarkaschool by his composition of Nyāyāvatāra; his views, as expresed in it, did not get much following. No later scholar except Siddharşi has commented upon it. The independent works that