Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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SHANKAR AND SYADVAD.
(1) In a sense it is. (2) In a sense it is not. (3) In a sense it is and it is not. (4) In a sense it is not predicable. (5) In a sense it is and is not predicable. (6) In a sense ut is not and is not predicable () in a sense of is and us not and is not predicable.
Now this Saptabhangi form of reasoning is also directed to the determination of such notions as, unity, plurality, eternity, identity, difference and the like. In other words following up the principle of Saptabhangr raya, they hold that existence itself is a contradiction, for instance unity is not only unity but also a plurality as well. A thing is not only eternal but otherwise as well and so on.
Having thus summarised the funda- Examination mentals of the Jain philosophy, and taking his stand on the above Vyasa Sutra Shankar Contradic Swami remarks
l. It would be contrary to reason to accept the Jain doctrine. Why? Because Being and of the impossibility of co-existence of contra- can not at dictory attributes in one. Just as a thing time belong cannot be hot and cold simultaneously, so
and criticism view point of the Law of
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