Jainism in North India

SR No.: 011067
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chimanlal J Shah
Publisher: Longmans Green and Compny London
Publication Year: 1932
Total Pages: 66
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA is meant by these seven modes is that a thing should not be considered as existing everywhere at all times, in all ways, and in the form of everything. It may exist in one place and not in another, and at one time and not at another." 1 "The solution of Jainism is thus a reconciliation of the two extremes of Vedantism and Buddhism on grounds of common-sense experience." 2 Both Jacobi and Belvalkar take it as in opposition to the agnosticism of Sanjaya Belatthiputta : "Whereas Sanjaya had said, I cannot say if it is, and I cannot say if it is not,' Mahavira declared, 'I can say that the thing in a sense is, and I can say that the thing in a sense is not.'" 3 In short, Syaduada is a unique feature of the Jaina philosophy. No better example of the clarity, subtlety and profundity of the Jaina intellect could be given than this. Mahavira might be safely credited with the invention of this part of the Jaina dialectics. The earliest mention of this in the Jaina canonical literature according to Dasgupta probably occurs in Bhadrabahu's (483-357 BC) commentary of Sutrakrtanga- Naryukti." . This statement on the part of the learned scholar is based on the authority of the late Dr Satis Chandra Vidyabhushana, who has used the following verse of the Niyukti as the basis of his inference: असियसय किरियाण अकिरियाण घ होइ चुलसोती। श्शनारिणय सनदी वेणयाणं च पसीसा॥ "180 of the Kriyavada, 84 of the Akriyavada, 67 of the Agnanavada and 32 are of Vainayikavada." 7 It seems from this that the late doctor was under a wrong impression that the above verse of the Naryukta contained a reference to Saptabhangi-Naya. As a matter of fact we get here an enumeration of the three hundred and sixty-three divisions of the four heretical creeds believed by the Jainas. Really speaking, in 1 Cf. Bhandarkar, Report on Sanskrit 3788 , 1883-1884, PP 95-96, Rice (EP), Kanarese Literature, PP 23-24 . Dasgupta, op cil,1,P 173. Belvalkar, opal, p 114 Cf. Jacobi, S.B.C, xlv, P XX1, Belvalkar and Rande, op.al, pp 433 n, 434 If Cf. Belvalkar, op al, 114 Dasgupta, op. cit., 181, n I * Vidyabhuslinn, Tistory of the Mediatal School of Indian Logic, P 8, History of San Logop 167 Sutral Tlanga (Ag modaya Samiti), 110, P 200 . Cf. Jacobi, op al. Int. ; id , PP 316 Agnant seems in the aboven. As a maid sixty- Really