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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History and Sources foundation of the Navyanyāya-school by writing Tattvacintāmaņi on four pramāņas. Its commentators like Mathurānātha, Jagadisa, Gadādhara and others made the discussions so subtle and deep that the old definitions appeared as inaccurate. Later on, the new science was adopted not only by the philosophical systems but in the discussions of grammar and prosody also. Its current was so powerful tiat no body could claim to be a logician, philosopher or even a grammarian without knowing it. It became an essential part of the debates on all the subjects. YASOVIJAYA UPĀDHYAYA :
By the end of the 17th century, after a lull of five hundred years, there arose a new illuminary in the horizon of Jaina philosophy and literature. It was Yaśovijaya Upādhyāya. He was a superb genious, who drank deep in all the systems of thought and was a profound scholar of all the new as well as the old developments of logic and philosophy. Nothing comes out of his pen which is not properly digested. His account is authoritative, logical and scholarly. His presentation is accurate and clear. His discussion is minute and comprehensive. He does not indulge in unnecessary wordy-warfare to increase the volume of composition. He is precise and to the point.
Yaśovijaya has written on all the topics related with the Jaina ethics, logic, epistemology and other subjects. Pt. Sukhjal gives a list of his works which number seventy two. Out of them forty are completely available, seven are incomplete and twenty-five have been lost. His pen runs with equal force in Samskýta, Prāksta, Gujarati and Hindi.
His Jñanabindu and Tarka-bhāsā are entirely related with the theory of knowledge. The former work deals with the Agamic conceptions while the latter is devoted to the logical school. These compositions, though small in size, are very important to understand the subject. Yaśovijaya is an adept in diving deep and bringing out the inner essence. Regarding the Agamic views he leans towards the school of Siddhasena. His