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SUPPLEMENT
Jain Misson Society
Madras.
By Mr. R. B. JAIN. Secretary.
At the outset, let me say frankly without the least exagge ration that the author of this Treatise, which is called, "Jiva Victor, or Treatise on the (Science of)' Life, or Biology, was His Holiness Vadivetal Sri Santi Suriji who was an unrivalled scholar of his times, whose greatness and scholarship were enlogised by then distinguished Poet Dhanapal, one of the Gems in the court of the Emperor Bhoja-raj as well as, by other contemporary learned scholars and the emperor himself. The treatise though small in size containing only 50 stanzas deals with all the Biological gist Exhibiting wide range of knowledge of how the life developes from the tiny being to the highest human form in its successive stages, and how complicated it becomes and how it gets its deliverence from birth and death, and then how it eventully reaches a state of permanent happiness called, 'Mukti,' or Emancipation.
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To ordinary men, this work may appear to be an insignificant one, but when we study it deeply, we come to know how
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