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Verse 104
Syādvāda is the doctrine of conditional predications, renouncing the absolutist view:
स्याद्वादः सर्वथैकान्तत्यागात् किंवृत्तचिद्विधिः । सप्तभंगनयापेक्षो हेयादेयविशेषकः ॥१०४॥
सामान्यार्थ - सर्वथा एकान्त का त्याग करके कथञ्चित् विधान करने का नाम स्याद्वाद है। (इसलिए कथञ्चित् आदि शब्द स्याद्वाद के पर्यायवाची हैं।) स्याद्वाद सप्तभंगों और नयों की अपेक्षा को लिए रहता है तथा हेय और उपादेय का विशेषक (भेदक) होता है।
Discarding the absolutist (ekānta) point of view and observing the practice of using the word 'kathancit' – 'from a certain viewpoint', or in a respect', or under a certain condition' - is what is known as syādvāda - the doctrine of conditional predications. It embraces the seven limbs (saptabhanga) of assertion, the one-sided but relative method of comprehension (naya), and also the acceptance and rejection of the assertion.
The particle 'syāt' in a sentence qualifies the acceptance or rejection of the proposition or predication expressed by the sentence. It refers to a 'point of view' or 'in a particular context' or 'in a particular sense'. The ‘vāda'presents a theory of logic and metaphysics. Syādvāda means a theory of predication of reality from different points of view, in different contexts or from different universes of discourse. Syāduāda is the expression of the pictures of reality obtained from different points of view in definite and determinate logical predications Syāduāda promotes catholic outlook of many-sided approach to the problem of knowledge of reality. It is anti-dogmatic and it
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