Defiition of Living in Jain Cannons An Evaluation

Author(s): N L Jain
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चतुर्थ खण्ड / ३६८ need be reexamined and re-told. Though the observational process represents one of the three important steps for scientific knowledge, but natural observation and observations through experiments and instruments makes a difference. This gap between results of natural and experimental observations must be recognised as a measure of intellectual growth of mankind between the cannonical and current age. There would have been much progress in biological field of today if the Jainological contents about the living could be known to the scientific community of the world during earlier centuries and they would themselves have peeped into the world of the living in early days in preference to the material world.
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