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the metaphysical world of permanence-cum-change is an important section of this chapter.
. In the third chapter, Epiestemological Analysis of Anekāntavāda, I have tried to give a epistemological analysis of this anekāntic principle. Mahavira the jina, propounded the philosophy of anekānta to attain the truth of multi-dimensional aspects of reality. He reflected upon the multi- dimensional nature of reality, and applied two types of perspectives to explain the reality.From the substantial or transcendental point of view, reality is eternal and from the conventional or its modal point of view, reality under goes change. So we have seen or experienced that change presupposes the persistence of an underlying substance. So permanence is to be accounted as an element always present in an object together with the change. But change means the cessation of a previous mode or attribute and the coming into being of a new mode or attribute. The affirmation of the triple characteristics has, therefore, nothing paradoxical about it.
Basically Mahavira's enlightened interpretation of rendering solutions to the questions put forth before him, by his disciples and laypersons is really a path breaking. Bhagavati Sūtrā ,which is considered as the encyclopedia of Jainism, is a scriptural text, where Mahavira used this significant and efficacious tool of ‘siya' or 'syād' and paved the path of understanding everything from the multi-dimensional perspective. The very nature of each and every subjective and objective reality of world inherently possesses infinite attributes and modes. From endless ages,infinite attributes and modes possessed by every object keep on changing without giving up their eternal and perpetual essence.The fundamental substance remains the same generating various concepts and percepts. It acquires different shapes but the base of independent existence remains unaltered. Every moment both are undergoing change and it will continue to change in the endless future without
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