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anekānta. Dr. Bhargava expresses his doubt about anekāntavāda having its roots in non-violence and giving rise to or being characterised by toleration. Prof. Bhagchandra Jaina's article 'Rudiments of Anekāntavāda in Early Pali Literature'attempts to demonstrate elements of anekāntavāda and nayavāda in the Pali Buddhist literature. Prof. Ramjee Singh in his article 'Relevance of Anekantavāda in Modern Times' explains how the modern world needs the spirit of anekāntavāda most. The spirit of anekantavāda can foster world-peace, can keep together the different peoples with their different cultures, outlooks, temperaments, ideas, sets of rituals and philosophies, can offer solution to the social, political, religious and cultural problems. This spirit is essential to the kind of philosophy needed to account for the complexities of the emerging world civilization.
I am, indeed, grateful to the management of B.L. Institute of Indology for giving me an opportunity to study and edit articles on the Jaina theory of anekānta read in the Seminar organised by the Institute in the year 1990.
NAGIN J. SHAH
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