Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM
31 everywhere, at all times, in all ways, and in the form of every thing. It may exist in one placc and not in another, at one time and not at another, etc. It is not meant by these modes that there is no certainty or that we have to deal with probabilitics only, as some scholars have thought. All that is implied is that cvery assertion which is true is truc only under certain conditions of space, time, etc. This is the substance of the sec. tion which trcats of Dravyas samanya or Dravya generally."
Had Jainism been atheistic, the Vedas would not have refere red to it in respectful terms. Says thc Rig Veda :
"I bow down to the twentyfour Sidhas, Rishabh to Vardha. Vedas on Jain. mani celebrated in all the the worlds."+ ism,
Similarly,
says the Yajaman “Wc propitiate the naked Gods who acc. holy, and who purify others."s
So again, vide Yajur Veda, XXV, 19.:
+ This passage seems to be spurious from its language as well as from its reference to Vardhaman.
Id. * लोक्यप्रतिष्ठिनानां चतुर्विंशतितीकराणां ।
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(नग्नये) जातियेषां वीरा ।। ["ॐ नमोहंन्तो पभो" ॐ प्रपनं पवित्रं पुरहूतमप्वरं यशेष नग्नं परमं माहस स्तुतं पारमं शजयं सं पशुरिद्रमाहुरिति स्वाहा । उता. तारमिन्द्रं ऋषभं यन्ति अमृतारमिन्द्रं हवे मुगतं सुपायमिन्द्रं हरे रामममितं तद्धमानपुरखानमिन्द्रमा
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