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See for the origin of such Hindu festivities as Bhratri Dyitiya, Dipavali etc. You will find them only in the Jaina events accepted on historic grounds. Seek for the origin of stories, given as stories in diverse versions in Hindu and Buddhist mythological works. You will find them in their natural and unexaggerated form (i. e. just as they happened to be ) in the Jain works of authority. These facts tend to prove that, Jainism is the oldest of Indian religions, its traditions are the oldest of Indian traditions and so on, since every thing is presented so simply and unartificially in it, and the loss of simplicity and naturalness is a sure proof of later working. Good deeds are never lost sight of. The extreme nicety of Jainism, its high ideals both from moral and philosophic points of view have ever influenced the Indian mind. So when in later times, the Brahmins and others began to build other religious structures, (This also, you know too well that, according to the Jains, the Kshatriyas are, taking all way round, the foremost aniongst the four caste-people of India and hence all the Tirthankaras sprang from them, the Brahmins are inferior to the Kshatriyas) they were forced to use the Jain materials for the foundations. Thus, in Vedas and other Sastra Granthas of Non-Jains, animal food is per
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