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Jainism in a Global Perspective
namo arihaṁtānan/namo siddhānam ņamo āyariyāṇam/ņamo Uvajjhāyānan ņamo loe savva-sāhūnam ejso pañca namukkāro, savva pāvappanāsaņo mamgalāņām ca savvesim, padhamam havai mangalam.
-- (Āvašyaka sūtra) - 1.2 I bow to the Victors I bow to those Liberated Souls. I bow to the Preceptors I bow to the Spiritual Teachers I bow to all Saints This five-fold obeisance Wipes out all evils, Amidst that which is auspicious, This is the most auspicious.
Notes & References 1. The writer wishes to acknowledge the help and inspiration of Mr.
R.P. Jain, Drs. S. Sulekh Jaina and Surinder S. Singhvi, Tansukh Salgia and L.M.Singhvi . He is also grateful to Mr. John A. Grinnell, McHenry Library, the Academic Senate and Joni Tannheimer of the Word Processing Staff of the University of California at Santa Cruz for their help and encouragement. In collaboration with Dr. Surinder S. Singhvi he has compiled an article entitled "Jaina Radiance in the West" which is being published by the Jaina Association in commemoration of Mr. V.R. Gandhi's appearance at Chicago in 1893. That article gives fuller research and bibliographic details to much of the material used in this paper. Two contemporary collections of documents describing the Parliament are John Henry Barrows: The World's Parliament of Religions. Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Company, 1893. two volumes and walter R.Houghton : Neelry's History of the Parliament of Religions. Chicago, 1993. Besides the text both have illustrations which repay study. A vigorous and spirited portrait of Mr. V.R. Gandhi at Barrows 1225 is especially notable.
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