Jaina Tarka Bhasha

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

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The Organ of Knowledge
cows etc. and because even the one-sensed creatures receive indistinct sounds. A non-alphabetical verbal knowledge is sighs etc. because it also causes real functioning knowledge because from it also arises the knowledge that one is in misery etc. Or being useful in knowledge, though all the activities are verbal knowledge, yet here (in sighs etc.) alone is fixed the conventional usage, as famous amongst those who are well versed in scriptures. The knowledge of those possessed of mind is discursive. The opposite of it is nondiscursive. What is included in the main and subsidiary scriptures, is right; the mundane is false. Thinking from the point of view of the knower, there is option--even the false knowledge acquired by a person of right vision is right knowledge, because of its suitable adjustment as an incorrect statement, whereas even the right knowledge, acquired by a man of perverted vision, is wrong knowledge. Having a beginning- ( it has a beginning ) substantially with reference to an individual, territorially, in Bharata and Airāvata, periodically, the ascending and descending rounds (of the circle of time), and psychically, the efforts etc. of those instructors. Having no beginning—(it has no beginning) substantially with reference to different individuals, territorially in Mahāvideha, periodically quasi - ascending and descending rounds (of the circle of Time) and psychically, desti uction-cum-subsidence in general. Similarly, the varieties having end and having no end should be thought of. Repetitive is the same reading, generally in the drșțivāda(the twelfth and the last, and now supposed to be lost, limb (anga) of the scripture). Non-repetitive is the unsimilar reading in the Kālikaśruta (a Jaina scripture). That is said to be included in the main scriptures, which is composed by the gañadharas (direct disciples of the Tīrthankaras). That is said to be excluded from the main scriptures which is composed by the elders (of the monastaries). In this way, the empirical perception in the form of sensuous and verbal cognition together with their varieties, has been investigated into.
[9. After classifying the transcendental perception into three, the investigation of clairvoyance at the outset).