Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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Is essential
a correct
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
canons that a Judgment must obey in order The observ- that it might be true anceof which
A good and correct to the Judgment has some respousibility, and this formation of
responsibility takes on the form of rules, Judgment
laws and canons that a Judgment must obey, oi else be an untrue or false claimant of the respective demands To disobey these rules would, therefore, be tantamount to treason to knowledge itself.
We have already dwelt on the first two elements of Judgment. We are now to deal with the third one, or the laws and canons for the formation of correct Judgment
Students of Indian systemis of thought Etymolo all know that the word pramana (AIT) gical signicance of originally meant an instrument of measure
ment--from mån-to measure and pra-forth. It may be translated as a measured, standard authority.
But the prandna which serves as a Function of means (199) of determination pro
duces pramiti (afafa) which means accurate or right knowledge, just as sådhan (means) produces siddhz (truth or certainty) This pramana is a means of information and determination and has variously,
Praman
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