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Recollection (Smrti) in Jaina Logic..... : 33 before, in the form, “it is that, and is due to the waking up of an impression."10 Ācārya Māņikyanandi says, “Memory is that cognition which is caused by the awakening of past impressions, it is of the form of 'that'."11 Ācārya Hemacandra describes, “Recollection (is a cognition which) has for its condition the stimulation of a memory impression and which refers to its content by a form of the pronoun 'thať.12 According to Ācārya Yaśovijaya, “Recollection is the cognition generated only by experience, as 'that image of Tirthankara’"1.2 “Here Ācārya Hemacandra brings out a very instructive point that is the importance of the inseparable conjunction of the anubhūta and the anubhūyamāna aspects in the object perceived, of which our memory is produced. The anubhūyamāna element i.e. the element of the process of being perceived may be supposed as separable from the element of anubhūta which is the finished product of perception. In that case, in memory, we miss or do not have before us, the anubhūyamānavisaya and so our memory seems to have no objective reference (nirālambana) and thus fails to be pramāna; similarly, we would have to deny the validity of pratyaksa pramāņa, if we separate the anubhūyamāna element and confine it to a mere anubhūtārtha, which has the effect of making pratyakṣa superfluous. Now to vindicate the validity of memory and pratyaksa as pranāņas, Hemacandra emphatically insists on the anubhūyamāna element as a necessary accompaniment of the anubhūtārtha having its ālambana or resting supports the anubhūtārtha (anubhūtārthena sālaimbanatvopapatteh)”. 14 This also highlights the Jain contention that recollection is a cognitive process which is different from perception but dependent upon it. By above-mentioned definitions (sūtras) the Jain logicians articulated various aspects of the recollection (memory). Many of the Jain philosophers describe retention as the condition of recall. Therefore, previous knowledge is the fundamental condition of recollection. Retention is that stage of perception where determinate perception leaves behind such an impression which makes possible the recollection of the object concerned at later occasion. On the analysis
| SR No. | 525080 |
| Book Title | Sramana 2012 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shreeprakash Pandey, Ashokkumar Singh |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 2012 |
| Total Pages | 72 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 7 MB |