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Anekāntvada : Objections raised by Prof. N.K. Devaraja and answers given by Acharya Shri Mahaprajna
– Dr. Pradyumna Shah
Since the origine of Anekāntavāda many objections have been raised by the scholors of different schools such as Acharya Shankar and Dr. N.K. Devaraja. Acharya Mahaprajnaji has collected the objections raised by the scholors both the ancients and the moderns and has answered them in his popular book दर्शन मनन और मीमांसा'- 1
Dr. N.K. Devaraja has criticised the doctrine of Anekāntvāda in his book 'qaf IT anat'? He points out, how to establish any kind of identity (unity) or hormony among different statements that are made from different points of views and with different expectations to single entity. There is stability in every reality and every reality is liable to changes having an origination and cessation. The critic points out that the Jain Philosophy gives equal value to both of these facts i.e. (i) stability and (ii) origination and cessation. Now the question arises whether the two facts can not be combined into one and whether they can not be perceived, anyhow, as one.
The Jain philosophy is non-absolutist not only in the ontology but also in the theory of truth. The specific truth has its own characteristics and they are not the parts of the generic truth. They have their own existence like atoms. Sangativāda
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