Historical Facts About Jainism

Author(s): Lala Lajpatrai
Publisher: Jain Associations of India Mumbai

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and Kanara and other places in the south are a living testimony to the political achievements of the Jains. The Hindus had lost to the Muhammedlans in Bengal and Orrissa as well as in the south so far back as the 12th and 13th centuries. We have seen how the doors of the foreign invasions were thrown open in the tinies of Prithviraja and low in the final defeat the Maharattas were responsible in the famous battle of Panipat, which took place in 1761 A. D., and how the British rule commenced. Nowhere will you find the Jains losing to the foreigners or in any way being the near or reinote cause of the downfall of India.
JAIN TYAGA AND ITS EFFECTS. If you mean to say that the Jains were not directly but indirectly the cause of political downïall owing to the supposed sinister influence of the Tyaga practised by them, the same is equally untenable. Tyaga is common almost to all the Indian religions and it passes one's comprehension how the Jains or the Buddhists alone can be blanied, granting for a moment that political downfall can be caused by Tyaga. Further the Jains were not for any considerable time paramount and did not bring the other races under their complete subjugation and sway. In considering the state of an Empire what counts is the paramount influence. Then again we do not find any instances of the Rajputs