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COMMENTS
Dr. Kalghatgi has placed students of comparative philosophy and religion under a great debt by his seminal understanding and lucid exposition of the Anekanta and Nayava da on which he dealt with in the course of the Raj Krishan Jain Memorial Lecture (in three parts) which Shri Prem Chandra Jain has instituted in the University of Delhi as an annual feature in memory of his father. Ekanta (single) and Anekanta (Multiple) vada are really aspects of consciousness associated with Antahkarana The six darsanas of Hindu philosophy (Vaide şika, Nyāya, Samkhya, Mimansă, Yoga and Vedanta) are well-known. There is a nine-fold sub-division known to Jaina scholars.
Dr. Kalghatgi cites in support of his view, that Jainism is a Pre-Aryan religion which prevailed in India long before Mahavira and Pārsva, the last two Tirthankaras. It is well known that Mahāvsra was the 24th (the last) Tirthankara to expound the Jaina teachings. Dr. Kalghatgi points out that there is reference in the Vedic and Budhist literature, etc. to Jainism as Arhat Dharma, which shares the belief of the Self getting bound with Karma and that the goal of every birth is to be free, which seems possible by self-effort. This finds an echo in the Bhagavad-Gita which is explicit that it is possible for one to raise himself by himself; a person who does not do this is his own enemy,
Dr. Kalghatgi explains the involvement of Indian philosophy with logic, epistemology, metaphysics and even the way towards the ideal life of Muni and householder alike, aside from art and architecture also. But the above study is confined by Dr. Kalghatgi to the contribution of Jainism to logic, particularly Anekanta and Syadvada.
