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45 as well as its sister system-Gautama's Nyaya system, were not any new philosophies; all that these two persons did was to collect together and put in a systematic form the Sutras, taken from various sources. As Jacobi says " The Vaiseshika philosophy may be briefly described as a philosophical treatment and systematical arrangement of those general concepts and ideas which were incorporated in the language, and formed the mental property of all who knew or spoke Sanskrit." Now it is far more probable and undoubtedly more just to believe that the borrowings of which the Jains are rightly or wrongly accused were made not from the Vaiseshika system but from those early systems of philosophies from which the Vaiseshikas had collected their own system. This statement would appear quite clear, when by a critical examination of some of the important doctrines of the two systems, we shall show that they resem. ble only in those doctrines wbich are not
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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