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PREFACE
In humbly placing the present book entitled Au EPITOME OF JAINISM on the table of the Worl. library, it few words of explanation by way of an apologic are, it appears, needed to justify the claious, it lays up on the value time of its various realers. And we may state at the outset that it is not an atteint 10 supersede any of the modern treatises on Jainism. Its claim to attention, if it has any, arises from the fact that it is but a compilation forming an epitome having for its besis the most orthodox principles, doctrines and tenets as found in the Jain original works of authority and high antiquity, or promulgated on the subject by Tin speculative writers and conformed to by accurate thinkers in their spiritual inquiries.
But to connect together these detached fragments of a subject never yet treated as a whole, from the real Jain point of view, in these days of transition under Western refinement ; to harmonise the different portions of the seemingly discordant autes
