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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Introduction.
(1x spirit of the original Prakrit texts as far as it was possible for us to do so, and we hope that it will certainly fulfil the purpose with which it is written. Some useful and critical foot-notes throwing light on the various important technical terms of Jainism have also been added at the foot of the translation in order to fascilitate their understanding, and this will also help much towards the understanding of the text. For the purpose of the knowledge of
the general reader and for The Ethical and the purpose of the critical Social Importance study of a student there has of the Book. been given below in a nut
shell the teaching of this important Agama book.
The whole volume Nirayī valiyão has been divided into five sections each of the first four containing ten lectures and the last twelve.
The first lecture of the first section deals with the story of Kila. Though Kuniya plays
an important part in the story First Section. yet Kāla appears to be the
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