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and all places in exactly the same way. Yet these important factors of time and place are frequently neglected or forgotten in estimating the truth of different statements, and this furnishes yet another fertile source of misunderstanding: Similarly, when one kind of profession began to attract too many people, irrespective of their capacity for it, while other important and vital professions began to be neglected on account of the hardness of life involved therein, it became justifiable to briug into force the law of Varnasrama, so that there might be men enough for all kinds of necessary work in society. It would, however, not be just nor fair to maintain and emphasize these institutions of animal sacrifice and caste-restrictions when the time for them is passed.
COMMON UNDERSTANDIG
This is the doctrine of Syadvaada or Anekanta or view points which forms the basis and the sine qua non of the Jain system of thought. It requires that all facts and assertions should be studied in relation to the particular point of view involved and with reference to the particular time and place. If these differences are clearly understood, the differences in
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