Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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Jawaharlal NEHRU-The discovery of India. Calcutta, 1946.
P. 73. Buddhism and Jainism were certainly not Hinduism or even the Vedic Dharma. Yet they are integral parts of Indian life culture and philosophy.
P. 83. Jainism emphasised the abstention from life and in certain periods of Indian history there was a running away from life on a big scale.
P. 97. The ideology of the Upanişad did not permit to any marked extent to the masses. This led to new movements of materialistic philosophy, Agnosticism and atheism. Out of this grew Buddhism and Jainism and at the period of Rāmāyana Mahābhārata an attempt was made to bring out a synthesis of the rival creeds.
P. 127. A little later than the Upanişadic period a strong current of materialism out of which Jainism and Buddhism arose where again an attempt was made to synthesise the various forms of belief in the Bhagavad Gita.
P. 128. Both Jainism and Buddhism were breakway from the Vedic religion and its offshoots, though in a sense they had grown out of it.
it was tolerant to caste
P. 129. Jainism in many way utterly different from and adapted itsef to it.
P. 168. Ascetic aspect of life was to grow more important under the influence of Jainism and Buddhism, but it did not change materially the background of life.
P. 189. The age which gave birth to Buddha was of tremendous mental ferment and Philosophic enquiry in India. It gave rise to materialism, to Bhagavadgila to Buddhism and Jainism and other current thoughts which were subsequently to consolidate themselves in various systems of Indian Philosophy.
P. 197. The idea of non-violence, already present in the Vedas and Upanişadas, was emphasised by Buddhism and even more so by Jainism.
P. 198. India was influenced by Jainism which was most other worldly and life negating of all the doctrines and philosophies.
P. 199. The emphasis of Jainism on non-violence led to the killing of the soul being considered as lowly occupation for it often resulted in the destruction of animal life.