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being represented by permanence." He refers to Indrabhūti's questions and Mahāvīra's answers in support of his statement. On being asked by Indrabhūti, his foremost apostle (ganadhara) : “What is the nature of reality?" (kim tattvam), Mahāvīra is reported to have first answered 'origination and then after the same question was successively repeated, destruction' and 'persistence."
A careful observation of Reality reveals that not only substance but its changing modes as well are real, asserts the Jaina philosopher The consistent realism of the Jaina tradition is reflected in its discussion of the various categories it accepts as constituting Reality. We shall now consider the categories in some detail.
1 Y.J. Padmarajiah, op. cit., p. 127 8 Ibid., p. 127 f.n.
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