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The work treats of so many aspects of Life that it has naturally grown a very big book. Many persons may not care to read the whole book. They would like to read the chapters treating subjects with which they are most concerned and I think that if the chapters on Brahmacharya and other ethical subjects are printed separately they will prove very useful to the general reader.
.: As the principles of Jain philosophy are not well known to the majority of Hindus they have no idea how nearly allied is the Jain philosophy to the Vedanta philosophy. I grate. fully acknowledge that I learnt this for the first time by reading this book.
The notes and exposition in English have been written by Mr. Motichand who has done this in a manner which will meet with the approval of all students of Jain philosophy. He has entered into the very spirit of the Masters, teachings and we can see from the lucid manner and the excellent style in which he expounds them that here is a gentleman who knows what he is saying and also knows how best to say it. He is rendering a very great service to his religion and is also providing the reading public with a book which will prove of very great help in the study of philosophy and will also be of great use on its moral and intellectual side.
Tribhowandas K. Trivedi, Esquire.,
Dewan, Bhavnagar State.
It is very difficult for a layman and a non-Jain to exprees his opinion on a work dealing, among other things, with some of the abstruso and mystical aspects of the Jain religion. My friend, Mr. Motichand, however, asks me to
