Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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THE JAIN LOGIC AND THE NAYAS and which on that account is generally left out of consideration. But here, as the persisting element is taken into consideration along with the changes in its appearances, it is called asuddha 2 e, improper.
(e) Kramopadh
nirapeksha
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nilya suddha etc --deals with regard only to the essential and real nature of the noumenon irrespective of the phenomenal variations it undergoes It consists in looking into things with reference to its real nature as apart from the temporal variations which the thing might happen to undergo
(f) Kramopadh såpeksha anitya asuddha &c.-is an enquiry into the temporal and perishable aspect of variations in so far only as they are subject to causality of karma.
THE SEVEN NAYAS
It is now clear how the two nayas, Noumenal and Phenomenal, differ from each other The one enquires into the very substance of a thing under consideration and the other investigates into the phenomena in and through which the substance
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makes its appearance to us.
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Karmopadh nir a peksha mitya suddha etc
Kas mopádha sapeksha amiya asud
dha etc
The Nayas
Seven