Contribution Of Jaina Writers To Nyaya Vaisesika Literature

Author(s): J N Jaitley
Publisher: J N Jaitley

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Contribution of Jaina Writers etc.
115 come under the third type of seşavat Guņānām because Bhāşya infers soul from its quality like desire etc. 1
The two types of Drgtasādharmýa as explained in Anuyoga represent respectively Upamāna and Pratyabhijñāna of Nyāyaśāstra.
As regards the categories, the Uttarādhyayanasūtra (28-5) enumerates three categories, viz. Dravya, Guņa and Paryāya as the objects of knowledge. However in Vaiseşikasūtra too the term 'Artha' is applicable to only Dravya, Guna and Karma.2 Anuyoga also refers to these categories 3
The definition of Paryāya .as given by Uttarādhyayana is also comparable with the division of Anekāśrita Guņas by Prasastapāda. Uttaradhyayana4 defines Paryāyas as follows :
एकत्तं च पुहत्तं च संखा संठाणमेव च ।
संजोगा य विभागा य पज्जावाणं तु लक्खणं ॥ २८-३ Prasastapāda enumerates the following quality as Anekāśrita Guņas :
संयोग-विभाग-द्वित्व-द्विपृथक्त्वादयोऽनेकाश्रिताः ॥ प्र. भा. गुणनिरूपण..
Following the Agamas, the Niryuktis and Bhāşyas like those of DasaVaikālikasūtra, Avaśyakasūtra and other works also show continuous familiarity with Nyāya and Vaiseşika schools of thought. The few references given below will prove the same.
Acārya Bhadrabāhu (300 B.C.) in his Dasavaikālika-Niryukti discussing Anumāna enumerates the five Avayavas and two types of ten Avayavas of an Anumāna.5. The five Avayavas, viz. Pratijñā, Hetu,
1 NBh 1-1-5 ? cf. VS 8-2-3. 9 Anu. 124. 4 However the general definition of Dravya, Guņa and Paryāya in Uttar.
is as follows : गुणाणभासओ दव्वं एगदव्वस्सिया गुणा । लक्खणं पज्जवाणं तु उभओ अस्सिया भवे ॥ २८-६ There is a fifference of opinion regarding the interpretation of the last Pada 37317 3fETT The old commentaries understand by the word Ubhao, Dravya and Guņa. While the modern scholars like Pt. Dalasukha Mālavaņia understand more than one Dravya and see the consistency of the definition of Paryāya as given in verse No. 13
of the same Adhyayana. Vide introduction pp. 106-7 of NVV. 5 DVN verse No. 50 and No. 89-91.