Jain Journal 2001 04

SR No.: 520142
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 92
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXV, No. 4 April 2001 There in nothing to show that the commentators of the Suśrutasamhitä were influenced by anekāntavāda. Syncretism, we would suggest, is a matter of attitude. It can be found as much in the works of Jain philosophers as in those of non-Jain ones. While discussing the aims of life (puruṣārtha) both Kautilya and Vatsyāyana proposed to accept all three, viz., religious duties (dharma), wealth (artha) and pleasure (käma), instead of preferring one to the other. 18
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In his glosses on Caraka, Sūtra. 11.6, Cakrapāņidatta identifies svabhāvavāda with the theory of no-soul and no-after-world (nātra kaścid ātmā vidyate yasya paralokaḥ syad iti svabhāvavadino bhavaḥ). He explains yadṛccha as the theory of no-cause and no-regularity (yadṛcchākāraṇāpratiniyamenotpadaḥ, na kāraṇa pratiniyamena karyotpadaḥ...). The Charakasamhita with Ayurvedadipikā, ed. Jadavji Trikramji Acharya, (1941). Varanasi : Chaukhambha Sanskrit Samsthan, 1984. pp. 68-69.
18. See the Kauṭiliya Arthasāstra, 1.7. 3-5, ed. R.P. Kangle, Bombay : University of Bombay, Part 1, 1969, p.8. Vatsyayana categorically states: trivargasādhakam yat syad dvayorekasya va punah/
kāryam tadapi kurvita na tve kāryam dvivādhakam// 2.51
Any action which conduces to the three objectives of life or of any two or even one of them should be performed; but an action which serves one of the objectives at the expense of the other two should not be practised.
Kāmasūtra, Varanasi : Chaukhambhā Samskṛta Series, n.d., p. 54. The translation is quoted from Kama-Sutra of Vatsāyana (sic), trans. and ed. Dr. Santosh Kumar Mukherji, Calcutta: Oriental Agency, 1945, p. 43.
Release (mokṣa) is not mentioned as the fourth varga in these two works. Apparently it was added to the list of the purusārtha-s at some later date.