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THE OPINIONS OF THE INDIAN SCHOLARS ABOUT
THE JAIN DHARMA
Meat-eating and wine-drinking in Brahminism were discarded on account of the influence of Jainism.
Lokmanya Tilak
Lord Mahavir was the greatest advocate of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Jainism and Buddhism are absolutely Indian but they are not offshoots of Hinduism.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
If those who are hostile to Jainism make a careful and incisive study of the Jain literature and assimilate it, their hostility will surely cease.
Dr. Ganganath Jha
The true and sublime message of Mahavir inspires in us the lofty emotion of universal amity as if through the cry of a 'conch shell.'
Sir Akbar Hydari
Shri Rishabhdev first disseminated the Jain Dharma.
Shri Varadikant M. A.
The Syadvad is an impregnable fort of the Jain Dharma. The bullets of the arguments and the counter-arguments of the controversialists cannot penetrate this fort.
Pandit Ram Misra Acharya
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