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An Account of
The usual formula is framed in the form of Sutras, a form which Indian scholers were very fond of in olden days. Obviously, that mode was useful in an age in which writing was unknown. But as time went on, the disciples of every faith degenerated and with that degeneration, the significant sutras of the older age begin to loose their meaning to the un-informed mind and critics, sometimes through bias but often through ignorance, began to turn and twist the meaning of opposite parties to siut their own purpose. The epigramatic forin of the sutras rendered the meaning borne by them open to mis-interpretation and irrelevent refutation. The sevenfold Syad Vad * illustrates this more vividly than any other doctrine. The fundamental theory underlying this syad vad is that every thing in the universe is related to every-thing else and hence we ought not to narrow our
[* Vide pp 54 - 56 Supra.
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