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target of
found to cannonade on this heptagonic
It is the fortification which has been from time imme. morial shielding the whole structure of the antamies
attack by the
the Syadvad. Jain philosophy against any attack. Many the 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 Vyåsa, the compiler Vyasa a n d
the Syadvad 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 Brah ma
af hagwara” as the thirty-third canon in the Second Section of the Second Chapter of his Brahma Suts as. 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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Sutra and Shankar.
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