Essence of Jainism

Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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EDITOR'S SUBMISSION
(Gujarati Version]
Most revered Pandit Shri Sukhalalji worte so many Papers in Gujarati and Hindi. His short and big Papers on religion, philosophy and several other topics had the advantage of his typically original, wide and deep, insight touching the very purport and allpervasive vision. Most of these are collected in the Gujarati publication Darshan ane Chintan' and Hindi 'Darshan aur Chintan.'
In the present publication, with the exception of the sixteenth Paper "Brahma and Sama", the rest are selected from the above. mentioned two works. In order to indicate the two source-works, we have placed their names into brackets. Papers written in Hindi are trans'ated into Gujarati.
Placing in the language of the common man, with utmost Clarity and simplicity, the subject of philosophy that is very deep and subtle, is an extraordinary trait of the scholarship and style of writing of Pandit Sukhalalji,
The Papers in the present book are not taken fully and just from continuous pages in the respective works. Papers are prepared after a new co ordination from whatever is written in the author's Hindi and Gujarati works, keeping in view the general reader's desire to know, his liking and intellect.
In this our new co-ordination in the present work, we have kept two points of view principally, before us. One is to submit before the curious reader all original information abuut Jaina philosophy and religion. This information will easily give to the curious reader an idea about the speciality of Jaina religion and philosophy as compared to the other fodian philosophical systems; it will also show its similarities with them. The other view is to give to i he curious reader some acquaintance with Panditji's scholarship that dives deep into truth and is comparative, impartial, synthetic and original. It needs hardly to be stated that Panditji's place is