Letter

SR No.: 269667
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye
Total Pages: 10
Language: English
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जं काविल दरिसणं एवं दव्वट्ठियस्स वत्तव्व।
सुद्धोयणतणयस्स उ परिसुद्धो पज्जववियप्पो ॥ दोहि वि णएहि णीयं सत्थमुलूएण तह वि मिच्छत्तं । जं सविसयपहाणत्तणेण अण्णोण्णणिरवेक्खा ॥ .
As a Tattvanirninisu, Siddhasena has reached a stage of understanding that different systems of thought are just partial attempts, while the Jaina Darsana is a conprehensive view embodying all the aspects. This he has symbolically put in one of his Stutis (1V. 15).
उदधाविव सर्वसिन्धवः समुदीर्णा स्त्वयि नाथ दष्टयः । न च तासु भवान प्रदृश्यते प्रविभक्तासु सरित्स्विवोदधिः ।।
Well, more pointedly and with specification of Jainism, Jinabhadra states thus in his Visesavasyaka-bhasya (72):
एवं विवयंति नया मिच्छाभिनिवेसओ परोप्परओ । इयमिह सत्वनयमयं जिणमयमणवजमचंतं ॥
This aspect of Nayavada was not bound to find favour with Jaina authors and logicians who had the spirit of vijigisu in them and who imitated the Vadins of their age. Further such an approach opened fresh thinking and planning of the Nayas and could make possible accomodation of different schools of thought under some Naya or the other.
It is with this background of the trend of thinking in Jainism that we have to study the Dvadasaram Nayacakram of Mallavadi Ksamasramana. Hemachandra has co nplimented Mallavadi as a leading Tarkika. According to Haribhadra Mallavadi wrote a commentary on the Sanmati Tarka of Siddhasena. Though this co nmentary, like that of Sumati, has not come down to us, that Mallavadi was terapted to write such a commentary is highly probable. Such a thorough study of Sanmati must have further developed his faculty as that of a self-willed rationalist; and the next step seems to have been his composition of the Dvadasaram Nyacakram in which he elaborates fresh possibilities in the development of the Nova doctrine.
The substance is existential in character; it is endowed with inseparable or inzerent qualities and separable or superimposed modes: thus its basic character continues through a flux of changes. It is this complex reality that is to be understod through various Nayas which have a reference to Samanya as well as Visesa.