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103. The (use) of indeclinable syāt in sentences signifies the Anekānta (many-sided view) and qualifies the meaning and being connected with the substance, happens in your case as well as those of the Kevalins.
COMMENTARY The seven modes of expression in Jainism (Saptabhargi) have already been described. The word syāt is used in the beginning of each sentence laying down one mode of expression. This means that the proposition is true, provided you take it in the right sense, viz., in the correct proposition with other notions. The word syāt accordingly warns us that only a partial view is being expressed according to our present intention in applying a particular proposition and it is not an absolute proposition denying the other varied aspects of a substance.
In this verse by 'Kevalin' Sruta-kevalins are meant, for by the use of the word 'tava' (your), kevalins are all included. During sixtytwo years after Mahāvīra (up to 465 B.C.) three Kevalins (Gautama, Sudharma and Jambū) were the propagators of Jainism. After them upto 365 B.C. five Śruta-kevalins, viz., Vişņunandi, Nandimitra, Aparājita, Govardhana and Bhadrabāhu were the same.
स्याद्वादः सर्वथैकान्तत्यागात् किंवृत्तचिद्विधिः। 1619
ufagt : ||104||| syādvādaḥ sarvathaikānta-tyāgāt kimvșttachid
vidhiḥ, saptabhanga-nayāpekṣo heyādeya-viśeşakaḥ.
104. The word ‘syāt leaves out the absolute onesided view point. (Its interpretations) are words derived from ‘kim' and (derivations) 'chiť etc. This depends upon the sevenfold Saptabhangi Naya and is distinguished by things to be discarded or acquired.
