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Swami Samantabhadra.
And for this reason, he must know a quoted verse. Before the commentator gives it, by imagining two distinctions of the word 'laukik' and 'shastraj', he writes in the form of a preface that 'the way in which the shastraj evidence, which originated from the shastra, obtains evidence, is now shown by the author of the book' * This is just the commentator's attempt to harmonize this verse with the other verses of the book. Otherwise, the original author does not seem to have such a distinction, nor is there any method of statement in the book based on such a concept, and there is no need to give the shastra a separate form after stating the nature of the sentence in the 8th verse. If they did so, they would surely give the characteristics of that apt in their book, like other books, from which the shastra or a particular sentence originates, and on whose distinction and evidence the distinction or authority of that shastra or sentence is often dependent; but throughout the book, there is not even a mangalacharan that is indicative of the general nature of the apt, let alone its characteristics. This makes it clear that the author has not made such concepts and special statements.
1' The distinction of the name shastraj with 'laukik' does not seem to be good or appropriate, it should have been 'lokoत्तर'. In the Shwetambar text called 'Pramananyatattvalokalan - kar', the word of the apt which is called agam has been divided into two distinctions, laukik and lokoत्तर (sa cha dvedha laukiko lokoत्तरश्च), and therefore, the aptvakya and the shabda praman or agam praman arising from the aptvakya should also have the same two distinctions, laukik and lokoत्तर. Here, the name distinction shastraj seems to have been imagined by the commentator only to harmonize the next verse with the book.
* 'Yadrish' shastraattjjaatam pramanataamanubhavati tad darshayati.