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338 Dr. Charlotte Krause: Her Life & Literature
so typical of Jaina Philosophy known as the 'Syādvāda' (i.e., the method of deducing an absolute truth from an aggregate of statements made from various stand-points, or, in other words, the method of relativity in argumentation ), which likewise finds a mentioning there as one of the characteristics of the teachings of the Lord (st. 31).
References :
1. Tattv. III, 7 ff., Ṭīkā, p. 248 ff.
2. Tattv. IV, 15, and Țīkā, p. 294 ff.
3. 1 koti 1 crore or ten millions; accordingly 1 koṭākoṭī = the square of a koți or 10,00,00,00,00,00,000. A 'sāgaropama' is equal to ten koṭākoṭīs of 'palyopamas', and a 'palyopama' is the number of years which it would take to empty 'a cylindrical container of a height and circumference of one yojana ( = 4 miles), filled under enormous pressure with the finest bodyhairs, if every 100 years one hair is removed. Vide Tattv. IV, 15, Bhāṣya, p. 294, and Pravac., Dvāra 18 and 159, p. 302 ff., where details and further specifications are given.
4. 1 'dhanu' = 4 'hasta' or cubits.
5. 1 'pūrva' = 84,00,000 pūrvāngas', one 'pūrvänga' equalling 84,00,000 years; Vide Tattv. IV, 15, Ṭīkā, p. 293.
6. 1 'hasta' = 1 cubit.
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7. Tattv. III, 12-13.
8. Vide Pravac., Dvāra 13, st. 327 (where, as an alternative, 10 is also given as the minimum number ).
9. Pravac. loc. cit.
10. Pañcaprat., Bh., p. 431 and elsewhere.
11. Published by the Atmananda Jaina Sabhā, Bhavnagar, V.S. 1975 (with the Commentary of Devavijaya).
12. Cp. M. Bloomfield, The Life and Stories of the Jaina Saviour Pārsvanatha, Baltimore, 1919, Introduction and the Original works mentioned therein.
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