Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. in their proper significance and acceptance express real objects not inconsistent with
what is established by perception. and its
This Testimony is of two kinds-(a) classification
Lonkika (af) and (6) Shastraja (men)
(a) Loukika sabda (af 95) is the Verbal Testimony from reliable persons having authority to speak.
6) Sastraja sabda (mes) is the Scriptural Testimony. By scripture is meant that which was inrented by self-realized persons who have seen truths and whose pronouncements in consequence are not incompatible with truths derived from perception
Now the sain sages hold the Scriptural . Knowledge to be of three different kinds. VIZ, -
(1) Knowledge derived from the teachiClassifica- ings, recorded or otherwise, of ku devas or Shasir aja bad spiutual teachers.
(2) Knowledge derived from the Naye Sruta or that part of the Jain scripture which teaches us as to the ways of comprehending things and realities in one or the other of the many aspects they are possessed of
tion
of the
Testimony
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