ABSTRACT
A contribution of Jainism to Indian philosophy which seems most stimulating, inspiring, debated and controversial, one which provoked most opposition from other systems of India is beyond doubt the doctrine of multiplexity of reality (anekānta-vāda). Indisputably it is also the most interesting Jaina contribution to Indian philosophy. The doctrine involved both a very particular realist ontology as well as a corresponding epistemology that was structured in such a way as to most aptly handle certain ontological presuppositions.
