Jaina Tarka Bhasha

Author(s): Dayanand Bhargava
Publisher: Motilal Barasidas Pvt Ltd

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Whatever the position, it is a fact that there has been a a tussle between the two view-points—the pro-logic and the anti-logic. The Jainas, true to their philosophy of neutrality, kept themselves aloof from all tussles in the beginning, but ultimately they had also to develop a science of logic of their own. This became necessary to defend oneself from the attacks of the opponents, who had begun challenging the rationality of the Jaina viewpoint. Not only this but it might have been also felt that a creed needs to be presented in an appealing form so that it could become popular. All scholars of philosophy, therefore, devoted themselves to the science of logic.
As far as the Jainas are concerned, they could find the basis for their system of logic in their scriptures themselves. It is but natural, because any thinking is, after all, based on some logic; that it may not have been systematised, is a diffe. rent question. The Jaina logicians rightly caught the spirit of Jaina scriptures when they said that the main theme of the Jainism is non-absolutism (anekāntavāda) and that every statement is to be accepted only relatively true (syadvada).
Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malavaniya has shown how we can find the germs of non-absolutism in the Jaina scriptures and we need not repeat it here. Similarly, he has also dealt with the seven-fold statement, as found in the Jaina scriptures The theory of the partial point of view (Text, chapter II) has also its origin in the Jaina scriptures.8
The other topics discussed in our text are also mostly dealt with in the faina scriptures. The five types of knowledge (Text, pp. 2-8) are mentioned by the Bhagavatīsūtram and the Sthānāngasūtra,5 in addition to the Nandısūtra which discusses only the varieties of knowledge in detail. Our author, Yasooi. jaya, has mainly followed Viśeşāvasyakabhāsya in this context. As regards other topics, Anuyogadvāra mentions four types of
J. Āgamayuga kā Jaina Darśana, Agra, 1966, pp 51-91. 2. Ibid, pp. 92-115. 3. Ibid, pp. 114-124. 4. 88.2.317. 5. Sūtra, 77. 6. Sūtra, 59.