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Viyahapannatti 5.4.233

Viyāhapannatti 5.4.233

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Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit

5.4.233

se kiṃ taṃ pamāṇe?
pamāṇe cauvvihe pannatte; taṃ jahā–paccakkhe aṇumāṇe ovamme āgame, jahā anuogadāre tahā neyavvaṃ pamāṇaṃ jāva teṇa paraṃ suttassa vi atthassa vi no attāgame, no anaṃtarāgame, paraṃparāgame|

"And what is pramāṇa?"
"Pramāṇa is declared to be of four kinds, namely: perception, inference, analogy, and scripture. As [explained] in the Anuyogadvāra, so should pramāṇa be understood, up to: beyond that, both the text and the meaning are not self-scripture (ātmāgama), nor immediate scripture (anantarāgama), but traditional scripture (paramparāgama)."

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