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wielded tremendous influence during all the subsequent centuries and brought peace to mankind, not only in India but also in far distant countries. By the roaction of one religion on another, all the threo religious systems became modified and more and more dignified and elevated, and the harsh and cruel elements in each were toned down by force of the very rivalry that existed between them.
In this brochure a translation is given of the short work recently composed by Mani Nyāya vijayaji in Sapskrita, entitled, the Vira Vibhuti, or The Grandeur of Vira. This work (in fifty seven verses) gives in a not-shell the story of the life of Mahārira as preserved in the Svetāmbara tradition. He has also made an attempt to lay special stregs on sach anecdotes from His life as have a bearing on the problems of present day society, and has described most vividly the method followed by Mahāvīra in His life and the ideals first get up by Him. In Mani Nyāyavijayaji's own words, Mabăvira's preachings can be summed up in three simple words:(i) Abimeā, or non-injury. (ii) Sangama, or control of the sense organs, (iii) Sevā, or service--the three corner-stones on
which the great structure of Jainism is reared.
Like a true saint, Muni Nyāyavijayaji here exhorts his fellow men to realise these three principal tenets
of Jainism, and to put them into practice in their Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
