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Extract from the review of Dr. W. .Schubring's book 'Die Lehre der Jainas' referred in Dr. Sten Konow's letter (No. 20) dated 21st March 1936.
......I shall only mention one detail, because the common European view has here been largly resented by the Jainas. The mention of bahuyatthiya mansa and bahukantaga maccha " meat" or "fish" with many bones in Ayarang has usually been interpreted so as to imply that it was in olden times, allowed to eat meat and fish, and this interpretation is given on p. 137. In the Review of Philosophy and Religion' vol. IV No. 2. Poona, 1933, pp. 7f. Professor Kapadia has however published a letter from Pro. Jacobi of the 14th. Feb. 1928, which in my opinion settles the matter. Fish of wbich the flesh, may be eaten, but the scales and bones must be taken out was a school example of an object containing the substance which is wanted in intimate counexion with much that must be rejected. The words of the Ayaranga are consequently technical terms and do not imply that meat and fish might be eaten.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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