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Gandhi's Teachers: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta
19. Vanaprastha ashrama prescribes partial freedom from the worldly duties and responsibilities. See: Radhakrishnan and Moore, A Source Book... op. cit., 1957; Doniger, The Laws of Manu... op. cit., 1991. Also see: Chapter 5, footnote 11 above.
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20. Shastras are Hindu scriptures. See: Radhakrishnan and Moore, A Source Book... op. cit., 1957.
21. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, pp. 175-176, 263-266.
22. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, pp. 39-41, 50. 23. Ibid., 41.
24. See: Appendix 1 - Gandhi: A Biographical Sketch. Gandhi was particularly impressed by The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams, The Perfect Way in Diet by Anna Kinsford, and several of Dr. Allinson's writings on health and hygiene. The Ethics of Diet is a biographical history of the literature on humane dietetics and it indicates that all philosophers from Pythagoras and Jesus to the present times were vegetarians. Dr. Allison had advocated a curative system for his patients based on regulation of diet on strictly vegetarian principles. See: Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, p. 42.
25. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, pp. 47-50; 267-269.
26. Rajchandra was a Jain and himself a strict vegetarian. Also see: Chapter 3 - Jainism and Jain Goal of Life. 27. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, pp. 175, 274
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28. Gandhi, From Yeravda Mandir... op. cit., 1932, p. 15. 29. Gandhi, Ashram Observances... op. cit., 1955, p. 112. One can notice here the influence on Gandhi of earlier read works on vegetarianism as well as of Rajchandra.
30. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, pp. 174-177; 267-269; 274-275.
31. Ibid, p. x.
32. Ibid, pp. 174-177; 276-278.
33. Ibid,, PP.
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