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3 SANMATI AND ITS COMMENTARY
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Doctrines resulting from Anekāntavada: Our autbor in the first chapter of Sanmati has discussed mainly two doctrines resulting from the doctrine of Anekānta : the first of these two is Nayavāda and the second Saptabhangivāda. There are two views that are often mentioned in Āgamas as being the basis of the doctrine of Anekānta. They are the Dravyāstika view that is the view-point of the universal and the Paryāyāstika view, the view-point of the particular. Our author bas made a clever analysis of these two views and distributed the Nayas under these two heads?. Mahā vīra had propounded the doctrine of Anekānta with a view to harmonise all the philosophical doctrines upto his own times. In order to do this, he classified all these philosophical doctrines under seven heads in the order of their greater and greater subtlety and aesigned a place to them in. his Anekānta doctrine. These seven heads are named as seven Nayas in Jaina scriptures. Siddhasena, in analysing these views and in distributing all the seven Nayas nnder those two has evinced two peculiarities: the first peculiarity is this that he has reduced the seven Nayas well-known in Jaina scriptures to six and the second peculiarity is this that while according to ancient tradition the range of the view of Dravyāstika was up to Rjusūtranaya, he limited its range up to Vyavahāranaya only. Looking to these two peculiarities it seems that in the opinion of Siddhasena, Naigama, should not at all be considered as an independent Naya : but from Sangraha upto
1 Sanmati L. 4, 5.
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