Nandanvana

SR No.: 006597
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 592
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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(36) Nandanavana
seedlings are sufficiently traceable in canons but it was fully developed into its sevenfold predications by ascetic scholars like Samantabhadra, Siddhasena Divākara, Akalanka and others." Jainas have won many debates of historical importance on this basis in the past. Many Jaina scholars have composed texts on this topic only. Currently, Tatia, Mukherjee, Mehta' and others have written about its philosophical, ethical, spiritual, social and individual aspects in excellencial figure of speech while Kothari, Mahlanobis, Haldane. Mardia, Munishri Mahendraji, Javeri, G.R. Jain" and others have a current scientific approach in their writings exemplifying its validity with respect to current scientific developments and observations involving relativity and statistics. In accord with them, the tables given in this paper suggest that the theory has a comparable conceptualisation, which results in some canonically differing views on many observable facts. However, it has worked wonders in metaphysical phenomena like the relativity theory in physical phenomena. In fact, as Mahatma Gandhi, has extended the application of non-violence from individual to national and international level, the Quantum and relativity theories have extended the application of Jaina Relativism from philosophical to physical phenomena. However, it tries to establish uniformity amidst diversified philosophical views and encourages religious harmony. It is a principle of rational unity. That is why some call it a super-specialisation induced by psychic elasticity.
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Historical Development
Malvania has guessed that the dream of seeing a variegated coloured bird in the pre-omniscience night is an indication of Mahavira's pluralistic and multi- sermons, the examples of which are traceable in Bhagavatī-sūtra and other canons. It could be supposed to have developed from contemporary reductionistic trends in which description of reality or an issue could be made on the basis of simultaneous correspondence between contradictory attributes by separation or division in parts of an issue. Mahāvīra tried to resolve many complex philosophical problems of the day by this method. The reductionist method has been later converted into a wider holist method involving or partial truth of opposites and termed as Anekāntavāda,This represents a harmoniser of human minds and aims