Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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of the unsett
ter of reason
more than five
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM with uncertainties, nobody would have any inclination to work-for the same Therefore the doctrine, pungently retorts Shankar, of those undecisive masters who have nothing definite to teach or preach, is not to be accepted.
IV. Then, again, applying this unmonstration settling principle of reasoning to that ling charac portion of their doctrine which teaches ing-Fewer that the composites (wfr911T) are five
in number, one has got to understand that on the one hand they are five and on the other, they are not five i. e from the latter point of view, they are fewer or more than five which is a ridiculous position to uphold
V Also you cannot logically maintain Involving an that the predicaments are indescribable If ment of Originai they were so, they could on 10 account be
described, but as a matter of fact they are described and as such you abandon your original position :
VI If you say,' on the contrary, self-contra- that predicaments being so' described are
ascertained to be such and such, and at the same time they are not such and such ,
a bandon
Position,
Rudiculous
dictions
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