HEMACANDRA’S PRAMANA-MIMAMSA-SOME - STRIKING FEATURES

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HEMACANDRA S PRAMANA MIMAMSA SOME STRIKING FEATURES क A Solomen Striking Features Besides being a renowned Ac rya Hemacandracirya was an adept in various fields of Sanskrit and Prakrit learning Kavya Vya karan_a s a stra Alankara Sastra Yogasastra 2૦૬ and the like He also wrote a work on logic viz Pramdpa Mimasa in the sitra style with શ svopajnag vrtti his own commentary एव it Unfortunately the work somehow remained incomplete As Pt Sukhlaljee has abundantly shown in his excellent edition of the Pramédna Aimamsd HemacandrZcarya had made on extensive and careful study of all relevant material on logic as found in the works of all the schools Brahmanical Buddhist and of course Jaina He imbibed all this learning and arrived at his own judgements independently not fighting shy of accepting a view of or acknowledging his indebtedness to a thinker of a non Jaina school I shall here refer to only હ few statements of Hemacandra which are thought provoking થવ point 10 his clear handed thinking and deep insight into the problems of logic that he is tackling At the very outset he says that one may છ હ tempted to ask that if he claimed that these s fras were his 09४ then which and whose were the s tras prior 10 his The reply to this 15 ૪૦૫ have asked very little You mught as well ask Which and whose were the safras on Vyakarana and other disciplines prior to Panini Pingala Kanada AkSapdda and the like The truth 15 that these disciplines are without any definite begi 130109 10 time but they appear to grow ever new according ટડ they are presented in abridged or amplified form and as such are linked up with the name of this or that person This is a ૪૦૫૪ carefully thought out rejoinder We are apt to regard this or that person as the fouunder or originator of a school of thought or of a discipline Actually the seeds lie in पट very distant past and a gradual but steady development of thought can be discerned It 15 a far cry from vacarambhanam vikédro namadheyam or yatra dvaitam iva bhavati एव the Upantfads to the Xevaladvaita of Sran karfic rya which rejects થ ર 15 miodi fication and duality of every sort and yct none can deery that the thought expressed as such did play an important part