Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 3

SR No.: 008004
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 586
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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Vida 1 Ganadharavada
:209: Sarvābhāvd'pi mataih samidhaḥ svapnaka iva, no tacca | Yat smaranadinimittah svapno na tu sarvatha'bhavah. 154 (1702)]
'Trans.-154 It is improper to believe that inspite of allpervading negation, doubt does spring up in a dream. For, a dream consists of (a number of) nimittas like remembrance etc., and it is not absolutely non-existent. (1702)
टीका-स्यान्मतिः परस्य-सर्वाभावेऽपि स्वप्ने दृष्टः संशयः, यथा किल कश्चित् पामरो निजगृहाङ्गणे “किमयं द्विपेन्दो महीध्रो वा ? इति संशेते, न च तत् तत्र किश्चिदप्यस्ति, एवमन्यत्र सर्वभावाभावेऽपि संशयो भविष्यति। तच न, यद् यस्मात् स्वप्नेऽपि पूर्वदृष्टानुभूतसरणादिनिमित्तः संदेहः, न तु सर्वथा भावाभावेऽसौ कापि प्रवर्तते । अन्यथा हि यत् षष्ठभूतादिकं कचिदपि नास्ति तत्रापि संशयः स्यात्, विशेषाभावादिति । ननु किं खप्नोऽपि निमित्तमन्तरेण न प्रवर्तते । एवमेतत् ॥ (१७०२)
D. C.-In support of the belief that doubt springs up even in Sarvabhāva, an opponent may advance an argument as follows : Just as in a dream, a poor pauper raises a doubt and questions whether there is an elephant or & mountain before his house, though, in fact, nothing exists like that; so, also, at other places, doubt can be raised in spite of the absolute abhāva of things. Thus, we can say that even though there is sarvābhāva, samsaya does exist in a dream.
But the above argument is totally groundless. In a dream, doubt arises on account of various reasops. Say, for instance, when an object is seen or experienced, the remenibrance of that experience etc., gives rise to the doubt. So, for the rise of doubt in the dream, there is some sort of reason which brings the dream-and hence the doubt-into existence. Thus, doubt arises from an existent object and not from the absolute abháva of it.
But, suppose, even then, if you believe that the samd dha springs up from the absolute abhāva also, the doubt should
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