Jain Journal 1981 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 6

JULY, 1981
an Idea, the subjective, as distinguished from the supernatural Mahavira which would have been more important. The reviewer thinks that the material for this part of the story, at least from the Svetambara sources, is much earlier, more authentic and more copious than any other, the innumerable dialogues between Mahavira and Gautama on diverse themes, mythological, scientific and socio-political, a lot of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology and cosmogony and what not, which constitute about eighty per cent of the early Agamic texts. In an age of subjective crisis, a subjective Mahavira would be more salable than an objective one attired in imaginary supernaturals.
-K. C. Lalwani