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જૈન ધર્મ સંબંધે નામદાર બ્રીટીશ
સરકારનો અનુભવ બ્રીટીશ સરકારે હિંદની પ્રજા, ધર્મો, વ્યાપારહુન્નર, ભાષા વગેરે બાબતોમાં શેખેળ કરાવીને વિદ્વાન પાસે મટે ખર્ચે પુસ્તક રચાવી ઇમ્પીરીયલ ગેઝેટીઅર” ના નામે તે પુસ્તકે બહાર પાડ્યાં છે. હેમાં જૈન ધર્મ સંબધે પણ એક લેખ છે. આ લેખ કોઈ વખતે જે તે કામ લાગે એમ સમજી અને જેમને તેમ આ છે; હેના ભાષાંતરની હમણાં કશી જરૂર જણાતી નથી.
Jainism is the second of the heretical movements which led to the establishment ef the nonBrahmanic orders, organizel as a protest against the exclusiou of all but Brahmans from the ascetic fraternities. Like Buddhism, it had its rise in Magadha, and its founder, like Gautama, was drawn from the warrior class. The two teachers were contemporaries, the life of Vardhaman extending from about 599 to 527 B. C. He is said to have been the disciple of an earlier saint, Parsvanatha, tho rules of whose order did not satisfy his ideas of stsingency, one of the cardinal points of which was the custom of absolute nudity. The natural inference: is that Vardhaman who on the establishment of his order gained the name of Mahavira
the great hero' was only the reformer of a sect which had its orgin in a still earlier protest against Brahman monopoly of the ascetic order. The title which he afterwards assumed Jina 'the victorious gave a name to the order which he founded.
