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Jinabhadra Gani's
[The third 65. Sthavira vacanaın yadi pare sandehah kim sura iti sādhuriti?!
Deve katham na sankā kim sa devo na deva iti ? (2360) 66. Tens kathitamiti vā matirdevo'ham ropadarśanácca
Sādhuriti katham kathite samānarūpe kā sankā ? (2361) 57. Devasya và kim v0eanam satyaiti na sādhuropahārirah! Na parasparamapiha vanda lhve yajjánanto’pi yataya iti.
(2362)]
Trans. 65-66-67. Sthaviras say that (if you entertain doubt about another person ) as to whether he is a deity or a sādhu, why not question the genuinity of a deity (also) as to whether he is a genuine deity or not? If it is your belief that since he himself says that "I am a deity" and since we saw the form of a deity, we did not doubt its validity; why should you raise the doubt when it is said that "I am a sādhu' and when the same body is (directly ) perceived? Or, is it, because, the word of a deity is true and that of an ascetic not so that you do not salute each other in spite of your knowing that “ this is an ascetic." 2360-2361
2362.
If you entertain doubts even about ascetics, who are pratyakşa, then, there is all the more reason for your doubt about jiva etc. that are paruksa :
जीवाइपयत्थेसु य सुहुम-व्ववहिय-विगिट्ठरूवेसु।
अपंतपरोक्खेसु य किह न जिणाइसु भे संका ? ॥६८॥२३६३॥ 68. Jivāipayatthesu ya suhuma-vvavahiya-vigittharūvesu i
Accantaparokkhesu ya kiha na Jiņāisu bhe sankā ? (2363) [sitaifacering **-grafia-fenced
अत्यन्तपरोक्षेषु च कथं न जिनादिषु भवतां शङ्का ? ॥६८॥२३६३।। 68. Jīvādipadártheşu ca sakşma-vyavahita-vikristarapeșu 1 Atyantaparukșeșu ca katham na Jinādişu bhavatām sanka ?
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