Jaina authors use a pluralistic epistemological model as a tool to claim the superiority of Jainism over the other schools of Indian thought. In this article the general tendency of the Jaina's epistemic pluralism is discussed and it is shown how the Digambara Jaina Vidyānandin tries to establish the Jainas' pluralism on rational grounds by identifying erroneous epistemic alternatives through methodological falsification.

The Jainas used variations of the pan-Indian sets of dialectical, epistemological, and logical principles in order to justify their ontological and soteriological convictions. The article analyses the application of logical principles in an ontological argument of a Jaina Digambara author. After the explication of the ontological aspect of the argumentation, central logical principles are examined against the backdrop of their definitions in Digambara Sanskrit works.

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