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and violence in all the forms hatred and violence take. And they together, the core of the teachings of Vardhamāna Mahāvīra, are the foundations of human freedom and dignity.
Anekanta says to us something directly and personally. During the conversation I once had with a person I was meeting for the first time, he said to me that his tailor was his true friend. Noticing the puzzled look on my face, he very helpfully explained. He said that whenever he goes to his tailor to get something made, a shirt, or a pair of trousers, or a jacket, the tailor takes his meausrements afresh. But his friends had taken his measurements long ago and keep measuring him by those measurements when meanwhile he has changed. And he feels lonely when he is with those friends. Anekanta says to us, lovingly: Don't stop with taking measurements only once, measurements either of your self or of the other.
Reference:
1. Surendranath Dasgupta (1885-1952), A History of Indian Philosophy (Cambridge, 1922), Vol. I, p. 181, fn. 1, in the chapter 'The Jaina Philosophy'. 2. The dates are as provided by Dasgupta, ibid, p. 171.
3. Dasgupta gives a very lucid account of the different naya-s. Ibid, pp 176-9. 4. K.N. Jayatilleke (1920-1970), Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge (London, 1963), pp. 347-50.
5. Ibid, p. 350.
6. Ibid, p. 346.
7. This story is to be found in the Mahabharata, Shanti-parva, Ch. 220 (Gorakhpur ed.)
8. Ishavasya Upanishad, 15-6.
9. See, Ashvamedhika-parva, Ch. 49.
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