Comparative Study of Indian Science

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: C S Mallinath

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not a' Hill (attended with Fire) because it is Fire that pervades Smoke and not the Hill. But the Jaina logicians choose to attribute to the Sadhya, the meaning attributed to it by the Buddhist school. The Jaina theory of the Sadhya is thus well-expressed by Vadi-deva :-"So far as the question of Pervasion is concerned, the Proven is the phenomenon (DharmaFire); otherwise Vyapti is not possible. It cannot be said that whereever there is Smoke, there is as rule the Hill, as there is Fire. But so far as the matter of conclusion is concerned, it (the Proven or the Sadhya) is the well-known Abode, otherwise known as the Minor Term (Hill), attended with that (i.c., the phenomenon, Dharma --Fire)."
11. Agama. The last source of Indirect Knowledge, according to the thinkers of the Jaina school is Agama or Words of Authority. "An authority," says Vadi-deva, "is one who knows a thing as it is and describes it according to his knowledge." The Indian philosophers of old were not bigoted thinkers, as is commonly supposed but were quite ready to sit at the feet of persons who could teach them. Ratnaprabhacharyya, while describing a Teacher, says, "Hence he who does not deceive one