Society Epistemology And Logic In Indian Tradition

Author(s): Dharmchand Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharati Academy

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Knowledge In Jainism: An Overview
Pramāņa is a part of daily cognitive life. Without Pramāņa knowing process may remain unsuccessful or invalid. Buddhist logician Dharmakīrti also says- "Validity of knowledge is proved through daily behaviour"15
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Jaina logicians created many works for the establishment of Jaina pramāņa vidyā and for refutation of other systems in this regard. They developed pramāņa śāstra and logic on the basis of knowledge and its kinds enumerated in the Jaina canons. They kept an empirical view in the development of pramāṇa-śāstra, hence they considered the sensuous knowledge after wards as perception and established smrti (recollection), pratyabhijñāna (recognition) and tarka (inductive reasoning) as indirect (parokşa) pramāṇa. They included kāraṇa, pūrvacara and uttaracara probans in the list of right probans (sadhetus).16
Right Knowledge and mohaniya karma
In Jaina philosophy, it is notable that the right knowledge leading to the path of liberation is not only connected with the subsidence or destruction of knowledgecovering (jñānavaraṇa) karma, but it also has relation with the subsidence or destruction of the view-deluding (daršana mohaniya) karma, The righteousness of knowledge (jñāna) depends on the destruction or partly destruction and subsidence of deluding-karma (mohaniya). Mohanīya karma is mainly of two types - (1) View-deluding karma (darśana mohaniya) and (2) cunduct-deluding (caritra mohaniya) karma. Darśana mohaniya karma represents the deluded inner view of a person
15 Prāmāṇyam Vyavahāreņa - Pramāņa vārtika, 1.7
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"A separate chapter of this book on 'Jaina Epistemology and Logic: Development and Doctrines' is discussing on Pramana and hetus.