Book Title: Jain Itihas Series 01
Author(s): B Benarsidass
Publisher: B Benarsidass

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________________ ( 81 ) What were the grounds on which . Jainism was condemned by Brahmanical Teachers ? What are the points of differences in the tenets of Buddhism and Jainism ? ! I should like to know if you have got in your Library all the published works on Jainism and also the researches made by European Scholars. You should during your College holidays visit Calcutta and study Jain researches contained in its Library. I am quite willing to join your Society as you propose but should like to know that its organization is good and that it will not varnish like a bubble after a few years' existence. You must have co-operators in the great work and also funds. Let me know the constitution and the resources of your Society. Believe me, Very sincerely yours, SARAT CHANDRA DASS. DARJEELING, 3rd March 1902. My Dear Sir, . Ti simply rejoice that you have been able to organize a Society which will endure and bring to light, the wisdom of the sages of old belonging to Jaina persyaţion. This will benefit more the members of that creed than the outsiders who will only wonder how persistently life has been valued by the Jainas. The most characteristic difference between the members

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