 The early Jain canons and teachings contained <unk> of references to anekāntavāda and syādvāda in rudimentary form without giving it proper structure or establishing it as a separate doctrine . <unk> text , <unk> contains references to <unk> , which , according to Hermann Jacobi , is the same as syādvāda and saptibhaṅgī . <unk> mentions only three primary predications of the <unk> . After Mahāvīra , <unk> ( 1st century CE ) was the first author – saint to expound on the doctrine of syādvāda and saptibhaṅgī and give it a proper structure in his famous works <unk> and <unk> . <unk> also used nayas to discuss the essence of the self in <unk> . <unk> classification of the nayas was provided by the philosopher monk , <unk> ( 2nd century CE ) in <unk> . Samantabhadra ( 2nd century CE ) and <unk> Divākara ( 3rd century CE ) further fine @-@ tuned Jain epistemology and logic by <unk> on the concepts of anekāntavāda in proper form and structure . 
