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## Introduction
The main religion is primary and other religions are secondary. To understand this, they recommended using the 'syāt' particle with each category (type of negation) and explained the meaning of 'syāt' as 'kathāñcit' - from one perspective, from one expectation. They also specified the use of the 'evakāra' word with each sentence to reveal the decisiveness of each category, so that the reality of that category is proven, not hypothetical or conventional. They also gave a new name to these seven categories of truth-presentation. That name is Bhaṅginī Prakriyā-Saptabhaṅgī or Saptabhaṅganaya. Samantabhadra's refined Saptabhaṅga is presented as follows:
1. (a) Vidhiniṣedhaśca kathāñcidiṣṭau vivakṣayā mukhyaguṇavyavasthā.
_ Svayambhū 25. (b) Vivakṣito mukhya itiṣyate'nyo guṇo'vivakṣo na nirātmaka te.
Svayambhū 53.
2. (a) Vākyeṣbanekaantadyotī gamyaṁ prati viśeṣaṇam. Syānnipāto'rthayogitvāttava kevalināmapi.
_ Āptāmī 103. (b) Tadyotanah syād guṇato nipātah.
Yuktyo 43.
3. Syādvādaḥ sarvathaikaantatyāgāt kimvṛttacidvidhiḥ.
Āptāmī 104.
4. (a) Yadevakāropahitam padam tad asārthataḥ svārtham avacchinatti.
Yuktyo 41. (b) Anuktatulyaṁ yad anevakāram vyāvṛttyabhāvān niyama dve'pi.
Yuktyo 42.
5. Prakṛiyāṁ bhaṅginīmenāṁ nayana yaviśāradaḥ.
_ Āptāmī 23.
6. 'Saptabhaṅganayāpekṣaḥ ....." Āptāmī 104.