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avagraha, ihā etc.1 indicated here reminds of the process of nirvikalpaka-savikalpaka jñāna described in the Nyāyasūtra2 and the process of origination of jñāna described in the Buddhist Abhidhammattha-sangaho.3 And its account of the three types of divine perception avadhi etc.4 reminds of the jñāna characteristic of a siddha, a yogin and God that is found described in the Vedicist and Buddhist systems. Its account of manaḥparyaya-a type of divine perception-reminds of the paracittajñāna (=knowledge of another person's mind) that is found described in the Yoga and Buddhist systems. Its twofold classification of pramana into pratyakṣa and parokṣa is a synthesis of the two-fold classification of the Vaiśesika and Buddhist systems, the threefold classification of the Sankhya and Yoga systems, 10 the four-fold classification of the Nyaya system11, the sixfold classification of the Mimāṁsa system12, etc. etc. The distinguishing between jñāna and a-jñāna in this investigation-into-jñāna13 is akin to that between yathartha and ayathartha buddhi in the Nyaya system14 and that between pramāņa and viparyaya in the Yoga system. 15
1. 1.15-16.
2. See Muktavali Kārikās, 52 ff.
3. See pariccheda 4, paras 88 ff.
4. 1.21-26, 30.
5. Prasastapada-Kandali, p. 187. 6. 3, 19.
7. Abhidhammatthasangaho pariccheda 9, para 24 and Nāgārjuna's Dharmasangraha, p. 4,
8. 1.10-12.
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9. Prasastapada-Kandali, p. 213, line 12 and Nyayabindu 1.2. 10. Iśvarakṛṣṇa's Sankhyakārikā, kārikā 4 and Yogadarśana, 1.7.
11. 1.1.3
12. Sabara's bhāṣya, 1.5.
13. 1.33.
14. Tarkasangraha-buddhinirupaṇa,
15. Yogasūtra, 1.6.
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