Jinamanjari 1996 09 No 14

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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Five types of knowledge
mati-śruta-avadhi-manaḥparyaya-kevalāni jñānam
(TAS 1.9)
Knowledge is [divided into five types]; mati, verbal testimony, knowledge of temporally and spatially distant objects, knowledge of state of mind of the other person, omniscience.
Here mati stands for all the forms of knowledge(jñānas) except śruta-avadhi-manaḥparyaya-kevala. Again, mati and śruta are the only forms of knowledge possible in ordinary people. As a matter of fact all living beings, except omniscient ones, always have these two forms of knowledge. That means mati covers all the forms of knowledge that non-omniscient ordinary beings have except verbal testimony. This is the broad sense of mati and in this paper we employ the term mati-A for mati having this broad sense.
Subtypes of Mati-A
matiḥ smrtiḥ samjñā cintā abhinibodha ity anarthantaram (TAS 1.13)
Mati, memory, recognition, cogitation and inference are synonyms. 2
The author of the TAS composes this sūtra to explain mati in its broad sense. He says that mati, etc., are synonyms (anarthāntara). It is difficult to understand mati in this sutra as mati-A. If we accept it in the sense of mati-A, then it should be regarded as the common name for the memory, recognition, cogitation and inference. In that case, sense perception will be left out and find no place in mati-A. For this reason, these five
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