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Correspondence
I have gone through the series of Kastur Chand Lalwani's articles ‘A Jaina view of Cosmos' published recently in the various issues of the Jain Journal with a keen interest. The learned author has, no doubt, made an exhaustive exposition of the Jaina account of the universe, but I was disappointed not to see anything even in the last paragraph of the article that could have justified the authenticity of the Jaina map of the universe vis-a-vis the latest researches in the field of cosmology. A vast exploration has already been made in the structure of the earth duly demonstrated by the authentic photographs obtained by spacecrafts or so, leaving no grain of doubt that the whole hypothesis propounded by old ones with regard to the mode of structure of the cosmos is false. When such is the position, should it not be worth-while on our part to recast our whole account and declare boldly and honestly that the old thesis of Trilokasāra is out of date now ? Or as it was expected from the learned author in his concluding portion of the article, the whole account should have been given to better interpretation from the viewpoint of the philosophy of Organicism. I think now it is high time for us to recast the old tenets of Jaina thought in the light of new theories of science and technology in order to make them more useful and pragmatic for our modern attitude of life.
P. K. Jain (Dr.)
Tehri, Garhwal
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