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tise them all and never upholds particular views as true or runs down other views as wrong. In fact he tries to synthetise all the views even though they seem apparently contradictory. He thus tries to arrive at the truth by the method of synthesis. Thus, for instance, an Anekāntajña holds Kārya (effect) as existant from one point of view and unexistant from another point of view. Similarly he thinks that a substance is one from one point of view and subject to dualism from another point of view 28
These are the limitations of each Naya :--
दव्वद्वियवत्तव्वं सव्वं सव्वेण णिच्चमवियप्पं ।
आरद्धो य विभागो पज्जववत्तव्वमग्गो य ।। २९ ॥
Dravyāstika Naya has for its province all those objects which are stripped of every kind of difference-but as soon as those objects are subjected to some sort of difference or division they become the province of Paryāyāstika Nay 1,
The world is characterised by both difference and unity. But when the world (or the objects therein ) is looked at from the point of view of unity or entity, it becomes the province of Dravyāstika Naya. This means that Dravyāstika deals with only the unity of things. When, however Reality or Entity is subdivided into
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