Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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SHANKAR AND SYADVAD. found to cannonade on this heptagonic
It is the fortification which has been from time imme.
target of
attack by the morial shielding the whole structure of the enemies at
the Syadvad Jain philosophy against any attack Many bave brought in their heavy artilleries to damage one or the other angles of this fortification and force an entrance into the same and many have been baffled in their attempts and thus become the buttend of all ridicule before the whispering galleries of the Jain philosophers and Omniscient beings At least such has been the case with the venerable Krishna Dwaipayan Vyasa, the compiler yasandund of the Vedas, maker of the Brahma Sutras and the author of the Great Epic, Mahabharata, who Aourished towards the end of third age.
To come straight however to the point, the venerable old Vyâsa fired his first artillery Brahma
naftaamaa" as the thirty-third canon in the Second Section of the Second Chapter of hus Bruhna Sutras. By this he wants us to understand that on account of the impossibility of co-existence of contradictory attributes as abiding in the same substance,
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