UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Anekāntavāda literally means “doctrine of non one sidedness.” It holds that any entity has multiple aspects, so any simple, unqualified statement about it is only partially true. This motivates the Jain insistence on considering different standpoints when making claims about reality. The doctrine is both metaphysical, about the complexity of things, and logical, about the limits of single perspective assertions.

Option A:
Option A resembles some Advaita descriptions of a featureless absolute rather than Jain realism about substances and attributes.

Option B:
Option B correctly states that reality is many sided and that no single unqualified claim fully captures it, which is the heart of anekāntavāda.

Option C:
Option C echoes other traditions that stress illusion, but Jains affirm the real existence of substances and their modes.

Option D:
Option D reduces knowledge of reality to one textual tradition, which is not the central point of anekāntavāda.