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Jainism-Its Comparative Superiority
(Vijayadharma Suri's Thoughtful Vision )
[We publish in these pages, a very thoughtful letter of the late Shastravisarada Jainacharya Vijayadbarma Suri to Prof. Herman Jacobi, an Oriental scholar of world-wide repute. This letter ( which was written about 25 years ago ) deals with the comparative supe. riority of Jainism, its hoary antiquity and its pure aod eternal aspects. It also throws very lucid light on the question of Vegetarianism and its vital importance to mankind. The letter is, as such, very important, from various stand-points, in this age of materialism even to-day.-PUBLISHER. ]
Vijayadharma Suri's letter MY DEAR,
I am glad to acknowledge the receipt of your pleasant letter dated the 8th April 1910. What I wrote to you in my last letter, did not refer to you directly but it was a general sort of thing from a Jain Sadhu to Europeans at large. My present letter too is similar in nature and presents brief criticisms upon certain points stated in your last letter and in which I differ from you. I can not agree with you that, the inclemency of the climate of countries beyond India,where Buddhism
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