Arthakriyakaritva, Arthakriyākāritva, Arthakriyakarin-tva: 1 definition

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Source: HereNow4U: Applied Philosophy of Anekanta

Arthakriyākāritva (अर्थक्रियाकारित्व) or simply Arthakriyākārin refers to “causal efficiency”.—It was quite natural that in the beginning of the rise of philosophy, every school used to speak in support of its own doctrine and against the invalidity of those of others. But in the age of logic, the Indian scholars advanced the argument that the entity which is capable of performing a function (arthakriyākārin) can be only sat or reality and nothing else. The credit of advancing this logical criterion of arthakriyākāritva, (causal efficiency) goes to the Buddhist tradition. The word ‘arthakriyā’ occurs in the early Buddhist work Lalitavistara in the sense of being useful to others without any metaphysical significance.

Hemachandra defines the arthakriyākāritva as the criterion of existence or being as the performance of certain specific action, or rather, existence, “arthakriyā sāmarthyāt, tallakṣaṇatvād vastunaḥ”. It means that a certain effect has been produced in some way (causal efficiency) then it is called Reality.

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