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FOREWORD It is a pleasure to introduce this book entitled “A Treatise on Jainism” which is scrupulously and diligently compiled by Shri J. S. SANGHVI, who himself was a double graduate and lived a pious life for several years in Satsanga in his retired life.
The book is very useful, both to an average reader and an undergraduate student of Jain Philosophy as well as a general reader of various schools of Indian Philosophy. The main success of the book is in that despite being in the concise form describing the vast subject of Jainology, it has covered almost all the important topics which an average reader, scholar or a Sadhaka is expected to know, so that it may be described as a "TITEÅ ATT" "An Ocean in the Pot.”
The chapter on Ahimsa has been very well dealt with, in that it gives a complete idea about the gross violence as well as the subtle violence. The latter is often omitted or just commented upon casually in the most works on “Jainism”, while here it is well dealt with.
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