Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ Determining AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. else which is termed as cause. A cause is Causes--SubStantial and what brings about an effect, the latter being what follows from the cause. Such being the definitions, in general, of the cause and the effect, many a logician have drawn a line of distinction between the circumstances and the active agents which co-operate to bring about an effect. One has been termed as the Substantial cause and the other as Deter. 112ining or Efficient cause otherwise known as Patient and Agent in European logic. The i eason why such distinction is drawn consists in this. We see the potter manufactures the jar out of clay by means of Danda-chakra -- the mill-stone-and-the-lever. The jar is thus the pioduct or effect of the co-operation of clay, the lever, the mill-stone, and the potter 16. the manufactuier himself Such being the case, all these beginning with clay must have to be taken as the cause, the effect of which is the jarthe product or the output of the co-operation, for a cause is the aggiegate of all such accidents both in the agents and the patients as concur in production of the effect propounded The manulac!uci, the mill slone and the like have 220

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