1. Jain, Buddhism and Hinduism
... of the West. As the late professor F.H. Smith pointed out, the apeiron (sic) of Anaximander is almost exactly the Hindu nirvikalpa, the nameless and formless, called Aditi, the unlimited, in the Rig Veda. Moreover, this Aditi which is nirvi-kalpa, is ordered by the immanent Rta, or darhma, just as in Anaximander, an immanent dike ensures that all things shall eventually return ... ...
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