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27. Annual Report, Rajputana Museum, 1934-1935. No. 17. 28. Many people trace the influence of Jaina St. Srimad Raichandra on
Mahatma Gandhi. See, Bulletin of Ramkrishna Mission, XXV,
No. 4, April, 1974, p. 94. 29. This is perhaps, what Mahatma Gandhi meant when he talked of the
moral basis of vegetarianism. See The Illustrated Weekly of India
XCVI, 42, October 19, 1975, pp. 17-18. 30. Then, the vegetarians represent a higher state of consciousness in the
human being. The evolutionary game is one which the vegetarians are fond of playing both ways. Even as they point out man's natural affinity to the ape, with its vegetarian habits, they also maintain that vegetarianism is the culminating phase in the dietary changes that have marked the homo-sapiens' transformation from beast to man. See, The Illustrated Weekly of India, XCVI, 42, October 19, 1975,
p. 18. 31. The Cholas are famous for (rather defamed) the leniency they showed
to the criminals. The future war may mean either the end of war or the end of human
race, for it will be a thermonuclear war. 33. Uttaradhyanasutra, VIII, 10 It is not enough that one does not one
self directly injure. One should not cause injury through agent, nor approve of the conduct of others indulging in violence, himsa. See also, Ratna Karanda Sravakasutra.
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