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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
The suppos.
t
ment of original posi- tion by the Jains.
in manifest opposition to the uniformly ed abandon accepted sense and signification of the
terms in question ? Besides, this would be construed as an abandonment on our part of the original position ( gfagi far!) taken up by us in the demonstration of the logical possibility and validity of inferential knowledge (anta pia) in addition to the perceptual and yielding as well to the view held by our adversary, in so far, indeed, as the epistimological side of the question is concerned, simply by a cunning display of pun upon words and terms from their etymological significations. Specially such is your position when we, Chârvâkas, do not admit of Pure Intuitions or Transcendental Perceptions which are impossible on your own statement to the ordinary mortals living, moving and having their being in the empirical world of ideas and ideals.
Indeed! we, the Jains, reply. There is Vindication
much of sense in your argument. But that
is only apparently in as much as they vanish f. altogether like cob-webs on searching
analysis, as we shall see presently. True it is that our definition and interpretation of
of the Jainposition and examination of the Charvàka hypothesis.
