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. AN EPITOME OF JAINÍSM. in their proper significance and acceptance express real objects not inconsistent with what is established by perception.
This Testimony is of two kinds.(a) Loukika (atfia) and (6) Shastraja (nieuw).
• (a) Loukika sabda (entferiti r.) is the Verbal Testimony from reliable persons having authority to speak.
(6) Sastraja sabda (tia 7) is the Scriptural Testimony. By scripture is meant that which was invented by self-realized persons who have seen truths and whose pronouncements in consequence are not incompatible with truths derived from perception.
Now the Jain sages hold the Scriptural Knowledge to be of three different kinds, viz ;
(1) Knowledge derived from the teachClassifica- ings, recorded or otherwise, of ku-devas or Sha straja bad spititual teachers.
(2) Knowledge derived from the Naya Sruta or that part of the Jain scripture which teaches us as to the ways of comprehending things and realities in one or the other of the many aspects they are possessed of.
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