Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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INTRODUCTION
OXVII
otherwise called" and thus equates these two-looks upon them as synonymous terms, observes as under in its intro., and then uses syādvāda as a synonym of saptabhangi:
"Both these doctrines, the Nayavada and the Syadvāda are varieties of Anekantavada, i. e. the doctrine of the many-sidedness of truth".-P. LXXIV "The Syadvada as found in the Bhagavatisütra consists of three propositions only-those of af (affirmation), arf (negation) and (indescribability).-P. LXXVII
Jagadisacandra in his intro. (p. 27) to SM says:
“ प्राचीन आगमोंमें स्याद्वादके सात मंगोंका कहीं उल्लेख नहीं मिलता, परन्तु यहां त्रिपदी ( उत्पाद, व्यय, ध्रौव्य ), सिय अस्थि, सिय पत्थि, द्रव्य, गुण, पर्याय, नय आदि स्याद्वादके सूचक शब्दका अनेक स्थानोंपर उल्लेख पाया जाता है ।"
This shows that here syadvada is equated with saptabhangi. I do not see any ground to do so, especially when a Digambara scholar like Samantabhadra defines syādvāda as "saptabhangīnayāpekṣaḥ”.1
That syadvāda and anekāntaväda are convertible terms needs no proof. For several Jaina writers of olden days, our author being one of them, have equated them as can be seen from my intro. (p. x) of AJP (Vol. I) and p. cxvII of this intro. Under these circumstances refrain from refuting the opinion of Jagadisacandra Jain who says in "The Development of the Doctrine of Anekantaväda in Jainism":
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In "syadvada-parīkṣā" of Tattvasangraha there is no mention of saptabhangi or saptabhanginaya. Even its Pafijikā is silent about it. Can it be therefore inferred that these authors do not loook upon sapta-bhangi as an equivalent of syādvāda! Pūjyapāda has "fara. dra" as the opening sutra of his grammar whereas Kalikālasarvajña Hemacandra commences his grammar with the words "सिद्धिः स्याद्वादात्". If anekanta and syadvada were not synonyms a great grammarian and logician of the stamp of Hemasandra would not have used syādvāda for anekānta in his grammar based upon that of Pujyapada and others.
2 The word 'anekanta' occurring in the following verse of Puruṣārthasiddhyupaya is explained in a Sk. com. and a modern Hindi com, by Pt. Makkhanlal as a synonym of syādvāda:
“परमागमस्य जीवं निषिद्धजात्यन्धसिन्धुरविधानम् ।
सकलनय विलसितानां विरोधमथनं नमाम्यनेकान्तम् ॥”
3 This is published in "Review of Philosophy and Religion" (Vol. V, No. 2, pp. 179-186).