Mahavira His Life and Teachings

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Luzac and Co UK

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70 MAHĀVĪRA : HIS LIFE AND TEACHINGS
As corollaries to these terms, it came to include two other groups of terms 1
1. The sit astıkāyas or terms comprehending - and characterizing the world of existence (I) dharma, (2) adharma, (3) kāla, (4) ākāśa,
and (5) ātmā 2 The three terms of dravya, guna, and paryāya comprehending and characterizing the six astıkāyas.
The doctrine of nayas is just what is termed syādvāda in the post-canonical works, and the nayas are no other than the seven modes of syādvāda (saptabhanginyāya) The canonical texts just mention the nayas without fixing up their number, four or seven
The term kiriya or Kriyāvāda, and the three terms relating to the three aspects of the Jaina faith may be shown to have formed a part of the oldest known nomenclature of Jainism
The terms representing the main system and the terms forming corollaries to them are indiscriminately set out together with other terms of a similar import in a passage in the Sūtrakrtānga presenting certain important articles of faith
'Do not maintain that the world does not exist, maintain that it exists
* Uttarādhyayana-Sūtra, XXVIII, 5-7