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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekāntavāda
nature of Anekantavāda. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, William James, Bradely and other likeminded Western Philosophers can be studied under this perspective. 10. Anekānta vādais a path of truth and non-violence in all respects. 11. The Anekāntavāda literatures needs a right perspective of non-Jain Scholars and invite them to go thoroughly with unbiased attitudes. 12. It is a humanistic approach of cohesion, co-existence and co-operation which is the need of the day for social justice to wipe out all sorts of violence, and provide creative solutions to the world's dilemmas.
References: 1. Laghiyastraya, 30. 2. Tattvārthasūtra, 5.21. 3 Sanmatisútra, 3.12. 4. Utpādavyayadhrau vyayuktam Sat. Sad dravya Lakṣaṇam; Guņa
paryāyavad dravyam, Tattvärthasutra; 5.30-38. Sanmatisutra, 3.5-6.
Sanmatisűtra 3.27 7. Ibid. English Translation, 3.27 p.138. 8. Ibid. 3.8; 3.13-8. 9. Aptamīmārsá, 59-61. 10. Tarkabhāṣā, p.5. 11. Quoted in Tattvārthavārtika, p.146; Nyāyakumudacandra, p. 303. 12. Quoted in Tattvārthaśloka vārtika, p. 148; Nyāyakumudacandra,p.
306; Prameyakamalamārtanda, p.149. 13. Jaina Theory of Reality and Knowledge, p. 232 FF. 14. Nyāyakumudacandra, p. 369; Jaina Theory of Reality of Knowledge,
p. 283. 15. Nayo-jñāturabhiprāyaḥ, ālāpapaddhati, 9; Prameyakamalamārtanda,
P. 676; Satkhandāgama, vol. 9, p. 162. 16. Sakalādesaḥ pramāņādhino vikaladaso nayadhinah.
Yathanśni pravrttasya jñanas yestā pramāṇatā. Tathānses vapi kinna syāditi mānātmako nayaḥ
Tattvarthaślokavārtika, Sutra, 1.6. 17. Naikam gamaḥ, Laghīyastraya, Svopajñavịttisahita, Ka. 39 and 68;
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