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Asanka (but the sins of the house-holders should touch the arhats, for they cook for them)
Asankapratiṣedha (this cannot be for the arhats go to certain houses unexpectedly, so it could not be said that the cooking was undertaken for them)
Naigamana (non-injury is therefore the greatest virtue)
Regarding the ten-membered syllogism Dagupta comments: "These are persuasive statements which are often actually adopted in a discussion, but from a formal point of view many of these are irrelevant."15 However, it is interesting to note that Dasgupta concedes the earlier origin of the ten-membered syllogism as against the well-known five-membered syllogism of the Nyaya-Vaiśeşika system when he writes: "When Vatsyāyana in his Nyāya-Sūtra bhāṣya I. 1.32 says that Gautama introduced the doctrine of five propositions as against the doctrine of ten propositions as held by other logicians, he probably had this Jaina view in his mind."16
15 Ibid., p. 156 16 Ibid.
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