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Hence, they are indescribable and unanalysable any further.
Thus, the Saptabhangi is the method of synthesis devised to express the comprehensive knowledge of things, without being inconsistent or illogical. The Nayas enable us to study the nature of things from the analytical point of view, and the Saptabhangi sums up the results of the investigation in a systematic logical way.
To conclude, the different kinds of Nayas are the instruments of analysis whereby different aspects of things are isolated and studied from different points of view, and the Saptabhangi is the method of synthesis which sums up the results of investigation in logical thought. They are both essential to avoid the common errors of the ekánta-vadins of the non-Jaina schools of philosophy and for arriving at the true nature of things. It is the philosophy of the Syád-Váda propounded, in full, for the last time, by Bhagván Sri Mahájira Svámi, the last of the 24 Tirthankaras, which alone is characterised by the feature of many-sidedness, the sole test of the relativity of knowledge, and which, in the words of a great American thinker, is "competent to descend into the utmost minutiæ of metaphysics and to settle all the vexed questions of abstruse speculation by a positive
