Book Title: Sagar Jain Vidya Bharti Part 6
Author(s): Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Shodhpith Varanasi

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________________ The Impact of Nyaya and Vaiseṣika School on Jaina ... : 187 discord the one-sided views of their contemporary thinkers. Buddha's approach being negative one, culminated in Śūnyavāda but his penetrating vision led him to proclaim that the truth lies in the middle path. He opined that any kind of extreme view was likely to give rise to one-sided opinion, which by creating obsession may obscure our vision. Mahāvīra's approach being positive culminated in Anekāntavada i.e. theory of Non-absolutism. This nonabsolutistic approach of both the schools are totally absent in NyāyaVaiseṣika schools. By the emergence of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika schools, the earlier phase of Jaina and Buddhist philosophy were well established. But this does not mean that Nyāya-Vaiseṣika philosophy has no impact on Jaina philosophy. It has certain influence on later established concepts of Jaina philosophy, which we shall discuss in this article. The history of the development of Jaina philosophy can be shown in following four phases: I. The Agamic philosophy - 5th cent. BC to 3rd cent. AD II. III. IV. The period of Logical presentation of Jaina philosophy and its theory of Anekāntavāda -4" cent. A.D. to 7th cent. AD The period of critical evaluation of other schools of Indian philosophy and - 8th cent. AD to 15th cent. AD The period of applying of Navya-Nyāya technique in Jaina philosophy - 17th to 18th cent. AD. Out of these five phases of the development of Jaina philosophy, the first phase may be called purely Agamic. One cannot trace any impact of Nyaya-Vaiseṣika schools on it. It was the second phase where some impacts of Nyaya-Vaiseṣika school can be traced on Jaina metaphysical and epistemological concepts. In the third phase, Jaina thinkers, while making a critical estimate of Nyaya and Vaiseṣika schools, adopted the Nyaya-Vaiseṣika concepts and also of their opponents. Jainas by synthesizing these opposite views Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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