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pleading that the authors made it to applaud the Jainas for Ahimsa.
VI. "Both the sects have their own sacred books and they are on very bad terms with each other".
Where is the necessity to teach this to "children of the age for whom these lessons are meant" ?
If you teach this, then give the truth in all its details. But that is too much for the age and mind of such "children". It is instruction of this sort which evokes and justifies the acid criticism of men like Wells on the futile hollowness and fatuity of our modern educational methods.
VII. "In course of time they (Jains) have begun to worship the images of their twelve Jinnas etc."
Jainas do not worship "the Images of 12 Jinnas". The details and history of Image worship among Jainas is a study by itself. I know little about it. But even to the superior knowledge of the Authors I can not concede that their above statement is right. As it stands it is certainly wrong and misleading.
Why "in course of time" and why "12 Jinnas ? Something about Jaina worship is given in my book.
Religious polemics are against my temperament. think the essence of Jainism is
