Sahanavasthana, Saha-anavasthana, Sahānavasthāna: 1 definition

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Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Sahānavasthāna (सहानवस्थान) refers to one of the three kinds of Virodha (“contradiction”), as used in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 10, l. 17]—Virodha, is of three kinds: (1) parasparaparihārasthiti, (2) vadhyaghātaka and (3) sahānavasthāna. Suppose there is a mango-fruit which is green in colour and sour in taste. When it is so, it is not yellow in colour and sweet m taste. This is possible only when the first state gets removed. Thus both of these states are mutually exclusive of one another and not co-existent. Amongst the available works of the Śvetāmbaras, it seems Gandhahastin Siddhasena Gaṇī’s com (pp 394-398) on TS (V, 31) is the first work to deal with the subject of virodha m details Dharmakirti has treated this subject m Pramanavims'caya

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