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SHANKAR AND SYADVAD.
It is the target of attack by the
found to cannonade on this heptagonic fortification which has been from time immemorial shielding the whole structure of the enemies of the Syadvad. Jain philosophy against any attack. Many have brought in their heavy artilleries to damage one or the other angles of this fortification and force an entrance into the same and many have been baffled in their attempts and thus become
the buttend of all ridicule before the whispering galleries of the Jain philosophers and Omniscient beings. At least such has been the case with the venerable Krishna Dwaipayan Vyasa, the compiler of the Vedas, maker of the Brahma Sutras and the author of the Great Epic, Mahabharata, who flourished towards the end of third age.
To come straight however to the point, the venerable old Vyâsa fired his first artillery Brahma "fa" as the thirty-third canon in Shankar.
Sutra and
the Second Section of the Second Chapter of his Brahma Sutras. By this he wants us to understand that on account of the impossibility of co-existence of contradictory attributes as abiding in the same substance,
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Vyasa and the Syadvad.
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