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Cañadharavāda देश-काल-ग्राम-नगर-सरित्-समुद्रादयश्च न सर्वेऽपि भवतः, प्रत्यक्षाः, अथ चान्यस्यापि प्रत्यक्षास्ते प्रत्यक्षतया व्यवहियमाणा दृश्यन्ते । अतो मत्मत्यक्षा नारकाः किमिति प्रत्यक्षतया न व्यवहियन्ते ? इति ॥ ३४२--३४३ ॥ (१८९०- १८९१)
D. C.-Bhagavāna :-o long-lived Akampital your objection that Närakas do not exist, because they have not been apprehended by you, is unfounded. I have perceived those Närakas personally. Accept them, therefore, as existing on account of their being pratyaksa to me, like all other objects, animate and inanimate.
Secondly, it is not appropriate to hold the obstinate view that nothing can be said to be pratyakşı in this world, unless and until it has not been witnessed by yon. Usually, that which has been witnessed by a trustworthy or respectable person, is accepted as existing in this world. Existence of lion, bear, and swan etc is universally accepted by all, even though those animals have not been pratya kşu to each and every person in the world. You have not witnessed all countries, rivers, towns, oceans and times, still however, you do not doubt their existence, because they have already been pratyakşa to other respectable persons
Similarly, you shall have to accept the existence of Nārakas when they have already been pratyakşa to me. 11342-343. 1890-1891).
अहवा जमिदियाणं पञ्चख किं तदेव पञ्चक्ख ?। उक्यारमेसओ तं पञ्चक्खमणिदियं तत्थं ॥ ३४४ ॥ (१८९२) Ahavā jamindiyāņam paccakkham kim tadeva paccakkham? Uvayāraméttað tam paccakkhamanındiyam tattham 11 344 H (1892) [अथवा यदिन्द्रियाणां प्रत्यक्ष किं तदेव प्रत्यक्षम् ? ।
उपचारमात्रतस्तत् प्रत्यक्षमनिन्द्रियं तथ्यम् ।। ३४४ ॥ (१८९२) 50
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