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kinds:--Samyagekant and Mithyaekent. That which establishes divergent qualities in a thing by arguments based on deductive and inductive methods, is called Samyak Ane-. kant. That which establishes divergence of qualities in a thing by methods opposed to deduction of introducton is called Mithya Anekant. ( Refer to the statement about Ramesh and Ram Ratna.)
That which points at one quality out of many in a thing established by reason, wholly ignoring the others is called Samyagekant. That which points at one quality to the conscious detriment of all the others is called Mithya Ekant.
When we examine a thing according to Naya [viewing in one aspect it is Samyagekant because Naya does not aim at knowing all the other qualities except one under review. Therefore the thing examined by good Naya is Samyagekant. When thing is examined according to the Pramana principle [ viewing in all aspects , then it is Anekant becouse Pramara tries to know about all the qualities lying in a harmonious whole. Thus according to the view point of pramana the thing is diverse It is said:
अनेकान्तो ऽप्यनेकन्त धमणा नय साधनाः ।
अनेकान्तः धमाणाते, तदेकान्तोऽर्पितान्नयात् ॥ The second objection to Syadvad is that सत्ता and असत्ता being and non-being can never be in the same thing Swami Shankaracharya has put forth this objection in Shankar Bhashya Chap. II Page 2, Sutra 33. But clear understanding of Syadvae vitiates this odjection. The confusion arises due to over-looking the two words Face è ( in relation to itsalf] and AT&T [in relation to other ) while showing that IÊTEET
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