Twenty-five centuries ago, on a hot afternoon in northern India, a man named Mahavira watched his followers argue and saw something the others missed. He saw a blind man. He saw an elephant. And he offered the world a teaching so quietly radical that it is still working its way through human civilization today. This is the story of Anekntavda --- the doctrine of many-sidedness --- and the man who built a philosophy of non-violence not just toward bodies, but toward truth itself.

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