Jain Journal 1988 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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and the Sautrantikas' is supported on Kșanikavāda(Doctrine of Momentariness), as they are the advocates of this doctrine. The Mimamsakas like Kumarila and Prabhakara and the Vedantin Madhva accepted atomism on the basis of the atomic theory of the Nyaya-Vaisesika. The Vijñānvādi Buddhists? and the Brahmavādi Vedantists like Acarya Sankara, 8 Acarya Ramanuja' and others did not admit this atomism. The Buddhist work Vijñaptimātrasiddhilo rejected the atomic theory of the Nyaya-Vaisesika system on the ground of consitutent parts of atom (avayavas of paramāņu), while the Vedantin Acarya Sankara11 refuted atomism of the Vaisesika by following the foot-steps of the Vijñanavādi Buddhists, under the influence of the Samkhya doctrine of prakti, buddhi (intellect), tanmātrā (infra-atomic potential), etc. The Jaina philosophy has conceived the atomic theory on the basis of destruction and origination of the material world from the stand-point of transformation taking place in it due to external and internal causes and made a synthetic approach to the problem of the atomic theory from the aspects of substance, space (locus), time and condition by taking into consideration all the concepts of atom of other Indian systems of thought.
The seed of atomism of the Jainas is embodied in the Jaina Agamas.12 Umasvati had shown the metaphysical aspect of it in his work Tattvārthadhigama-sūtrals on the basis of the Agamic concept of
4 Sankara-bhasya on Brahma-sutra (Vedanta-darsana), published by Veda Mandir, ed.
by Sri Mahesh Chandra Pal, No. 141/3/1 Varanasi Ghosh Street, Calcutta, adhyaya II, pada II, sutra 12, pp. 484-87 ; Abhidharma-dipa by Vima. Sloka-vartika by Kumarila, ed. by S. K. Ramnath Shastri, published by Madras University, 1940, Madras University Sanskrit Series No. 13; Sunyavada, slokas 261, 262, p. 301 ; Prabhakara-mimamsa by Salikantha Misra, ed. by Mimamsaratna Pandit Subrahmanya Shastri, published by Benaras Hindu University, 1961, 4th prakasana, pp. 64-65 ; pp. 67-68. Purnaprajna-darsana, Madhva, pp. 67-68. Bodhicaryavatara by Santideva, ed. by Dr. P. L. Vaidya, published by Mithila
Sanskrit Institute, Darbhanga, 1959, navama pariccheda, pp. 235-36, 281. 8 Sankara-bhasya on Brahma-sutra (Vedanta-darsana), adhyaya JI, pada 11, sutras,
11-17, pp. 459-84. • Sri Bhasya of Ramanuja, adhyaya II, pada II, sutras 11-17. 10 Vijnaptimatrasiddhi by Vasubandhu, Karika Vimastika, vide Nyaya-darsana, fifth
part, p. 106, ed. by Ananta Kumar Bhattacarya, Calcutta Sanskrit College. 11 Sankara-bhasya on Brahma-sutra, adhyaya II, pada II, sutras 11-17, pp. 459-84. 12 Bhagavati-vyakhyaprajnapti, see its Tika, sataka 14, uddesaka 4, sutra 513 ; sataka
20, uddesaka 6, sutra 670, etc. 13 Tattvarthadhigama-sutra by Umasvati, prathama vibhaga, Sheth Devchand Lalbhai
Jaina Pustakoddhara Fund Series No. 62, published by Jivanchand Sakerchand Javeri, first edition 1926, ch. V, sutras 11, 14, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35.