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Jinabhadra Gani's [ The eighth देश-काल-ग्राम-नगर-सरित्-समुद्रादयश्च न सर्वेऽपि भवतः प्रत्यक्षाः, अथ चान्यस्यापि प्रत्यक्षास्ते प्रत्यक्षतया व्यवह्रियमाणा दृश्यन्ते। अतो मत्प्रत्यक्षा नारकाः किमिति प्रत्यक्षतया न व्यवहियन्ते ? इति ।। ३४२-३४३ ॥ (१८९०-१८९१)
__D. C.-Bhagavān:-0 long-lived Akompita ! your objection that Nārakas do not exist because they have not been apprehended by you, is unfounded. I have perceived those Nārakas personally. Accept them, therefore, as existing on account of their being pratyakşa to me, like all other objects animate and inanimate.
Secondly, it is not appropriate to hold the obstinate view that nothing can be said to be pratyaksa in this world, unless and until it has not been witnessed by you. Usually, that which has been witnessed by a trustworthy or respectable person, is accepted as existing in this world. Existence of lion, bear, and swan etc. is universally accepted by all even though those animals have not been pratyaksa to each and every person in the world. You have not witnessed all countries, rivers, towns, occans and times, still however, you do not doubt their existence, because they have already been pratyakşa to other respectable persons.
Similarly, you shall have to accept the existence of Närakas when they have already been pratyakisaa to me ॥ 342-343 ( 1890-1891 )॥ अहंवा जमिंदियाणं पच्चक्खं किं तदेव पचक्खं ? । उवयारमेत्तओ तं पञ्चक्खमणिदियं तत्थं ॥३४४॥ (१८९२) Ahavā jamindiyāṇam paccakkham kim tadeva paccakkham ?, Uvayāramettao tam paccakkhamanindiyam tattliam 1134411 (1892) [अथवा यदिन्द्रियाणां प्रत्यक्षं किं तदेव प्रत्यक्षम् ।
उपचारमात्रतस्तत् प्रत्यक्षमनिन्द्रियं तथ्यम् ॥ ३४४ ॥ (१८९२)
