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TATTVĀRTHA SUTRA
All cognitive operation is generally divided into two types—viz. sākāra or determinate and anākāra or indeterminate. On further specification the determinate cognitive operation is divided into eight sub-types, the indeterminate one into four. Thus it is that cognitive operation has got twelve sub-types in all.
The following are the eight sub-types of determinate cognitive operation; mati-jñāna or right determinate cognition of the nature of mati; śruta-jñāna or right determinate cognition of the nature of śruta; avadhi-jñāna or right determinate cognition of the nature of avadhi; manahparyāya-jñāna or right determinate cognition of the nature of manahparyāya; kevala-jñāna or right determinate cognition that is all-comprehensive; mati-ajñāna or wrong determinate cognition of the nature of mati; śruta-ajñāna or wrong determinate cognition of the nature of śruta; vibhangajñana or wrong determinate cognition of the nature of avadhi. Similarly, the following are the four sub-types of indeterminate cognitive operation; cakşur-darśana or indeterminate cognition had through the visual sense-organ, acakşurdarśana or indeterminate cognition had through a non-visual sense-organ, avadhidarśana or indeterminate cognition of the nature of avadhi, kevaladarśana or indeterminate cognition that is all-comprehensive.
Question : What is meant by determinate cognition and indeterminate cognition ?
Answer : The cognition that apprehends the object concerned in a specific form is determinate cognition, the cognition that apprehends the same in a generic form is indeterminate cognition. The determinate cognition is also called jñāna or savikalpaka-bodha, the indeterminate cognition is also called darśana or nirvikalpaka-bodha.
Question : Of the above mentioned twelve sub-types, how many are a function of a fully developed power of consciousness and how many that of a partly developed power of consciousness ?
Answer : Kevalajñāna and kevaladarśana—these two are a function of a fully developed power of consciousness, the
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