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(XVIII) rising generation from an utter ignorace of the superiority of their own code and adoption, in consequence, of foreign ideas and ideals, habits and manners, that ought to engage the serious attention of our educated children of the soil
Now apart from the question of any sublimity, necessity and utility of the cultivation of the Philosophy of Jainism roughly consisting as it does in outward peace (Shanta) and internal tranquility (Chitta Prasåntı) united with contentment(Santosh) and apathy (Vardgya) to the alluring pleasures of the world, a glance at the description of the Jain Church as portrayed in Chapter XXXVII, a survey of the Jain places of Pilgrimage, of Art and Architecture &c. (Chapters XXXIX &c. XLI), a study of the great and
not yet fully accessible complex of writings , making up the Jain Literature and record
ing the appearauces of the Tirthankars in the era of avasarpini, and chronicling the organisation of the Sanghas, the great split in the original camp into the Swetambaris and the Digambaris the consecutive succession of the acharyas and the list of gachchas which originated with them, and
