Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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JAINAS IN INDIAN LITERATURE
But the philosophical interests of the Jainas were not limited to Nyaya and Vaisesika. This is shown a remarkable way by Haribhadra whose Saddarsanasamuccaya is an admirably. unbiassed account of the systems of philosophy, not the Saddarśana as it is generally understood as meaning the six orthodox systems, but those of Buddhism, Nyaya, Samkhya, Jaina, Vaisesika and Pūrvamīmāmsa, with an Appendix on the materialistic system of Carvāka. Another philosophical tract of his, the Lokatattvanirnaya in Sanskrit verses, is also quite impartial towards other creeds. Haribhadra even says here, that he did not consider the Venerable One his friend, nor other teachers his enemies that he had no partiality for Mahavira, and no hatred against Kapila and other philosophers, and was prepared to adopt that doctrine which was the true one3, There is no reason to ascribe these philosophical works to a later Haribhadra of the twelfth century, as Vidyabhūṣana does who argues that the great Haribhadra whom he dates in the fifth century, could not have referred to such authors as Dignaga and Dharmakirti. This difficulty is removed, if we accept the 8th century for the first Haribhadra (s. above).
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1 Edited, with the commentary of Gunaratna, by L. Suali in Bibliotheca Indica, 1905.
2 Edited and translated into Italian by L. Suali in giornale Soc. as. It. 18, 263 ff.
3 See L. de La Valle'e Poussin, Journal asiatique 1911, s. 10, 1. XVII, p. 323 ff.
4 Mediaeval School of Indian Logic, p. 48 f