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(e) The Avyākslas (in Buddhism) generated the dialectical process of Buddhist philosophy - Prabhācandra, the Jaina dialection, successfully refuted the Yogācāra denial of extra-mental reality. Abhayadeva, another Jaina dialection, refuted Yogācāra's difficulty of cognising Jadatā.
(f) Karma is maintained by both the systems.
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Sarvepalli RADHAKRISHNAN and Charles A. MOORE-A source book in Indian Philosophy. Princeton, New Jersey, 1957.
P. XVII-The Epic Period-500 or 600 B c. to A.D. 200-the rise and early development of Buddhism, Jainism, Saivism, and Vaisnavism; the unorthodox systemi of Jainisin perforce brought into clearer perspective by the construction of systematic treatises.
P. XX. The two schools of Jainism and others-evidence of the diversity of views in Indian philosophy.
P. XXIV. Non-systems of Indian philosophy (except the Cārvāka) openly stands in violation of the accepted intuitive insights of its ancient seers whether it be similarly intuitive wisdom of Mahävira, the founder of Jainismn or others as we have it today.
P. XXVI. All philosophies in India-Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Cārvākahave a practical motivation, stemming from man's practical problems of life, his limitations and suffering, and culminating in every case except the Cārvāka in a consideration of his ultimate liberation (Mokşa). The goal of life is essentially the same.
P. XXVII. The essential spirit of the philosophy of life is that of nonattachment: they also accept the doctrines of karma and rebirth.
P. 228. Jainism did not draw its theories from the Veda and Upanişads and did not attempt to justify its teachings by reference to those bases orthodox texts.
Pp. 250-71. Chapter VIII—Jainism.
P. 250. The Jainas followers of Vardhamāna (Mahävira) (599 B.C.-527 B.C.) who systematized the doctrine of the three Tirthankaras (founders of the path), Rsabha, Ajitanātha, and Aristanemi (all of ancient date, mentioned in the Yajur Veda).
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