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CHAPTER IX.
SHANKAR AND SYADVAD.
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Vyasa, and Shankar against the Doctrine of Syadved. Impossibility of the co-existence of the contradictory attributes in -Shankara's summary of the Syadvad and its interpretation-Its critical examination by Shankar-Inconsistencies and fallacies in Syadvad.
The unique position of
The above, in short, is the principle and character of the Saptabhangi Naya, the grand the Sapta heptangular stronghold of the Jain philo
bhang in
the arena of sophers It is from these angles that the philosophical Jain philosophers see into the realities of all
thought and being. It is from within this heptagonic fortress that they throw off their gauntlets as a challenge to their antagonists to outwit them Being guarded by the seven trenches of this their logical synthesis, their they measure the strength of adversaries and test the truth and validity Such of their knowledge and doctrines being the high and prominent position the ascribed to the Saptabhangi in arena of philosophical speculation in quest of truth, many a scholar and philosopher, ancient or modern, have invariably been
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