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Vāda, Iswarakāraņavāda, Ākasmikatva-Vāda and others about the cause of this Universe and finally established his own view-point, or just as Samanta Bhadra, in his Āpta-Mīmāṁsā in the course of his discussion of SaptaBhangi has introduced quite a host of doctrines such as Sat, A sat, Adwaita, Dvaita, Ekatva, Přthaktva, Nityatva, Anityatva, Daiva, Puruşārtha and others, and finally established his own view-point from Anekánta point of view, similarly Siddhasena in this third chapter has introduced quite a number of non-Jaina problems such as the problem of the general and the particular; of existence or otherwise of the soul; of the nature of the soul ; of the difference or otherwise of the thing and the quality ; of reason and scriptures; of the five views of causation such as time etc ; of the identity or otherwise of cause and effect; the six views such as accepting the soul etc., discussed them one by one at great length, and with great acumen and fiually by a comparative exposition of Anekānta and other rival doctrines clearly pointed out the merits and the defects of Anekānta-Vāda and Ekānta-Vāda respectively and finally established the invincibility of Anekānta doctrine and the weakness of other doctrines. Incidentally, while doing all this he has discussed ably some vital problems regarding his own religious sect and given his own views on all these problems and suggested some sort of reforma. tion therein. He has exploded all the notions that were popular in his time. For instance, he has exposed the hollowness of the view that even by a mere study of the Sūtras or by repeating the Sūtras without understanding their meaning, one may get merit, or that by the mere
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