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The books of the Jaina Canon clearly show that the terminology and exposition of the Jaina thought had developed by stages. The system, when it had reached its final shape in the Canon itself, came to be represented by the following terms and groups of terms
On its logical or dialectical side it came to be described as a doctrine of nayas, and on its pragmatic or practical side, as Kriyāvāda 2
The three spheres of the self to which it was required to administer came to be represented by these three terms jñāna or sphere of knowledge and intuition, darśana or sphere of faith and devotion, and cārtra or sphere of conduct and behaviour 3
The main system of Jainism came to be represented as navatattva or doctrine of nine terms. I jīva
6. āśrava 2 ajīva
7 samvara 3 bandha
8 karmakşaya 4. punya
9. mokṣa. 5. pāpa
1 Uttaradhyayana-Sūtra, XXVIII, 24 2 Sūtrakrtānga, I, 12 21 3 Ibid., I, 6. 14
• Uttarādhyayana-Sūtra, XXVIII, 14. Jaina-Sūtras, Pt II, p. 154
