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U. S. Mohan Rao, Mahātmā Gāndhi kā Sandeśa, p.9, as quoted from Acharya Vidyananda Muni, Jainadharma, Ahimsā evam Mahātmā Gāndhi (Kundakunda Bharati, New Delhi, 2007), p.13 M. K. Gandhi, YM (Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmadabad, 2010), pp. 3-4. Mahadeva Desai, The Gita according to Gandhi op. cit., p. 128, point 12,13. Samantabhadra, RKS, op. cit., pp. 149-50; Shri Krishna Jain, Pūjana-pātha- Pradīpa, Ed. (Shaili Shri Parshwanath Digambar Jain Mandir, Delhi, 2004), p.215. Appendix I, p. 239. MK Gandhi, Yerawada Mandir, p.5. Manorama, Sāntidūta Gāndhi ( Government of India, Publications Division, 1997), p. 1. Ibid page 38. Ratna Kumar Jain, op. cit., p.18. Bāpū," I have read Puruśārtha Siddhyupāya which had detailed treatise on Ahimsā for all living beings...”; and, p.27, Mahātmājī, "In my professional life On my table along with many professional and legal books, I always had Jain books like Jnanarva. I used to read them to understand many Jain principles...." Umāsvātī, TS, V.32, op. cit, Key to Reality, p.149. M. K. Gandhi, YI, 28-10-1926, See M. K. Gandhi, CWMG, Vol. 31, op.cit., p.505 .... I have made a fair study of Jainism. This visitor's Ahimsa was a distortion of the reality as I have known it in Jainism. But the Jains have no monopoly of Ahimsa. It is not the exclusive peculiarity of any religion. Every religion is based on Ahimsa, its application is different in different religions.... I can say this because of my acquaintance with Jains, which is so old that many take me to be a Jain. Mahavira was an incarnation of compassion, of Ahimsa. How I wish his votaries were votaries also of his Ahimsa!. Ācārānga Sūtra in F. Max Muller, ed., Sacred Books of the East Vol. XXII Jaina Sutras, translated by Hermann Jacobi (Low Price Publications, Delhi, 1996), Fourth lecture titled 'Righteousness' For details also please see chapter 2, topic Ahimsā.
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