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direction of the humanity towards non violence, self restraint and self discipline and solve the problems associated with such new researches and their usage. Due to the concomitance of non violence and self discipline, it has become essential and most important that they are both propagated and practiced together.
In the history of humanity, the religion had always been a guiding force to all those great entities and human beings who have tried to give a constructive and benevolent turn for betterment of social- economicalpolitical-cultural aspects of human beings. In fact in all the religions, the religion of non violence itself is the most important and potent discovery.
From the core of our hearts, we express our sincere and deep respect and
debtedness to the great, venerable crya r for unstinted effort in researching, compiling and throwing light of the right path in this series of Jain Dharma k Maulika Itih sa thereby contributing to the profound wealth of literature of Jain history and religion.
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