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The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.130

The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.130

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c8.130

taken into consideration here. There the *paccakkha-pp.* (211a)¹ originating partly from the five senses (*indiya*) and partly from another source (*no-i.*)—in the latter case superior forms of cognition are concerned—stands side by side with *anumāna*, *ovamma* and *āgamma*, i.e. conclusion, comparison and tradition, which altogether might justly have been comprised as *parokkha*. This word, however, fails to appear in the composition of the *Anuogadāra*. Conclusion (212a), to say but this, is *puvvavam* “resting on earlier (sensual perception)”, *sesavam* “resting on exclusion” and *diṭṭhasāhammavam* “resting on abstraction”, each word being explained by examples.