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Sheth Devchand Lalbhai Jain Pustakoddhár Fund Series. No. 17.
PREFACE.
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The Trustees of the Sheth Devchand Lalbhai fund have great pleasure in publishing the All present book entitled " Kammapayadi" or Karmaprakriti, an authoritative treatise on the theory of
Karma in its manifold aspects-a compendium of learning on Karmic law i.e. the laws of Evolution and Involution as propounded by the Jaina Darshana. The Jains have developed the theory of Karma
in a most wonderful way claiming the highest consideration at the hands of savants of Europe. * That theory is based on the law of evolution and satisfies both the reason and the imagination. The Jains &
claim very rightly the first place in developing the theory of Karma, in as much as they have the most | reasonable explanation of the working of Karmas in relation to a potentially pure soul. They have All worked out its various stages in absorption, manifestation, drawing, potentiality &c which themselves
are manifold and possess various degrees of capacities when absorbed by the Soul. There are many
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