Mohanlal Banthiya Smruti Granth

SR No.: 012059
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kewalchand Nahta, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Darshan Prakashan
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 410
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 19 MB

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Like perception, the existence of SB is also not proved by inference, another means of the valid knowledge. Secondly, it is also a fact that the inference is not recognised by Sabdavaitavadis as a way of valid knowledge. In this connection, Vadideva Says that: näpyaymanena, tasya tatsadbhāvavedakasya kasyacidasambhavat17. Acarya Vidyanandi also explains vividly regarding this problem. According to him since in the Sabdadvaiatsiddhanta, inference is not recognised as a means of valid-knowledge, how can we prove the existence of the SB by inferences.18
Again the Jain logicians ask that by which inference the Sabdadvaitavadins prove the existence of SB; either by Kāryalinganumana or by Svabhavalinganumäna1? This is also supported by Abhayadeva Suri and Prabhacandra.20 According to Jaina scholars the first alternative is not justified here, because the eternal SB has an action; neither it has any action chronologically (arthakriya), not it has any action collectively. If there is no action, then how can we, say that the SB may be established through Kāryālingānumāna. The second alternative also has no scope to prove the existence of the SB; because it is needed first to establish the existence of the dharmi SB and after that only we can prove it by inference, which is the Svarupabhutadharma of the SB. But when the DharmiSB, has no existence, then its Svabhāvalinga is automatically regarded as non-existence. Thus the SB is not established by inference, the second way of valid knowledge.
दर्शन दिग्दर्शन
17. The Syadvadratnakara 1/7, p. 100.
18. Cf. nanundanattatorthanam pratitedurlabhatvatah. paraprasiddhirapyasya prasiddhanapramanika. The Tattvarthaslokavarttika, 1/3, Sutra, 20 Verse97, p. 240.
19. Cf. napyannmmanatah / tatha hi anumanam bhavat-karyalingam bhavet svabhavalingam va? Kamalasila on Tattvarthasamgraha-panjika-tika verses 147-148, pp. 92-93.
20. Refer the Sanmatitarkaprakaranatika, Gatha-6 p. 384 and the Pramayakamalamarttanda, 1/3, p. 45
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