The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.129
The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.129
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§ 75. The *suya-ṇāṇa*, which we conclude herewith, forms a unity with the *ābhiṇibohiya-ṇāṇa* thus resulting in indirect or *parokkha* cognition (Nandī 140a; T. 1, 11), indirect inasmuch both rest on outward conditions. In imagination they represent the organic fundamentals. The three modes of cognition following *suya* (Nandī 166 ff.)—we shall deal with them in § 78 ff.—are direct (*paccakkha*) since they are not based on such conditions. Hence cognition is called twofold (*duviha ṇāṇa* Thāṇ. 49b). Umāsvāti in T. 1, 10 calls *pratyakṣa* and *parokṣa* the two *pramāṇa* or media of cognition. Aṇuogad. 151 a ff. deals with the *pamāṇa*, but of his varieties *davva-, khetta-, kāla- and bhāva-pp.* (also Thāṇ. 198a) only the one mentioned last (210 a) can be
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