Jaina Logic

Author(s): T G Kalghatgi
Publisher: Raja Krisen Jain Charitable Trust New Delhi

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PREFACE
"The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it is long" said Rabindranath Tagore in the Gitanjali. The journey into the studies of the development of Indian thought is long and ardeous. We do find that the consummation of the development of thought in the field of logic in ancient India is to be found in the doctrines of Anekanta and Syadvada in Jaina logic. The scholars in India and in the West are yet to recognise the significant contribution that the Jainas have made to logic and metaphysics.
The study of Indian Philosophy so far, is predominently oriented towards the emphasis on the Brahmana course of thought. The slight recognition that the Sramana thought has received, and that too recently, is only casual and as appendix to the study of Vedic tradition. It is considered only as a revolt and a polemic against the ritualistic aspect of the sacrificial system. There is need today of the reorientation of the study of Indian Philosophy. This is to be based, on the clear and ungrudging recognition of the existence of the Pre-Aryan Sramana current of thought. Jainism represents the Sramana stream of thought. With a fuller perspective of the course of philosophy in India in the light of historical imagination, without pride and prejudice, we may have to recast our history of philosophy.'
Shri Raj Krishen Charitable Trust has instituted in the University of Delhi the Course of Annual Lectures on Jainism
1. Gitanjali -12. 2. Kalghatgi. (T. G.), Presidential address, as the Sectional pre
sident, 42 nd Session of the Indian Philosophical Congress 1968. Patna.