Ambedkar rejected the sanatan doctrine of fixed eternal social standards

Evidence

Fourthly, the Hindus must consider whether the time has not come for them to recognise that there is nothing fixed, nothing eternal, nothing sanatan; that everything is changing, that change is the law of life for individuals as well as for society. In a changing society, there must be a constant revolution of old values; and the Hindus must realise that if there must be standards to measure the acts of men, there must also be a readiness to revise those standards. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1023

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘sanatan’ — the orthodox Hindu notion of eternal fixed order — which Ambedkar explicitly denies.
• XREF: connects to: Sanatan dharma denoted an orthodoxy rejecting reform unlike reformist sects. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1187; Every living faith fails the standard Ambedkar applied to Hinduism — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1205