Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 6

Author(s): L C Jain
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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conceived that Reality is characterized by the triple nature, viz. origination, decay and permanence in the process of transformation.1 Akalanka has dealt with the problem arising out of the fact of origination, decay and permanence of Reality at one and the same time as appearing to be self-contradictory2, having taken into consideration the different aspects of the same phenomenon, e. g. clay in the form of lump is destroyed and originated in the form of a pot, and persists as the substance at one and the same time.
The study of these three aspects of Reality reveals that the permanent substance exists as a body of relation between destruction and origination, for there cannot be origination without persistence and destruction, nor persistence without destruction and origination, nor destruction without origination and persistence.4 And if one is stated 1. "Sadotpadavyayadhrauvyayuktam sat, asato agataḥ/",
Ibid., p. 45.
2. Utpädasthitibhangānāṁ yugapannāsti sambhavaḥ /",
Catuḥ Sataka, p. 246, Aryadeva. "Svajātyaparityāgena bhāvāntarāvyāptirutpādaḥ (1) Cetanasya acetanasya va dravyasya svajatimajahataḥ nimittavasât hhāvāntaravyāptirutpadanamutpāda ityucyate mṛtpindasya ghataparyayavat", Tattvärtha Rājavārtika, ch. V. 30 (1) p. 494, Akalanka "Tathā pūrvabhāvavigamo vyayaaaṁ vyayaḥ (2) tena prakāreņa tathā svajatyaparityagena ityarthaḥ, pūrvabhāvavigamo vyayanam vyaya iti kathyate yatha ghaṭotpattau pindakṛteh /",
Ibid., V. 30 (2), p. 495. "Dhruveḥ sthairyakarmano dhruvatiti dhruvaḥ (3) anãdipārināmikasvabhāvatvena vyayodayabhävät dhruvati sthiri bhavati iti dhruvaḥ, dhruvasya bhavaḥ karma vā dhrauvyam yatha pindaghaṭādyavasthāsu mṛdādyanvayāt", Ibid., ch. V. 30 (3), p. 495. "Dravyarthikaparyāyārthikanayadvayavivakṣāvašāt sarveşu dharmadidravyeşu sa ubhayaḥ pariņāmo avaseyaḥ /
...anādirādimāṁśca pariņāmaḥ agamagamyah "
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Rājavārtika, ch. V. 42 (2), p. 503,
"Pravaha anādimaneṣaḥ na vijatyckaśaktimān" (6), Nyāyakusumāñjali, p. 20, Udayana. "Tattve yathavata bhavyamanvayavyatirekayoḥ eṣa käryakāraṇapravahah nadimān anādiḥ /",
Ibid., Comm.