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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
This book was intended to be published in the 2500th celebration year of Nirvana of Bhagvan Mahāvir. For various reasons it could not be done.
We are however pleased to publish it very soon thereafter. Dr. Harisatya Bhattacharya, though a non-Jain has an exceptionally thorough knowledge of Jainism, such as can be acquired only by one brought up in it. He is however modest enough to acknowledge and accept suggestions from Jain Scholars.
The seventh Chapter of the book is the master piece of the author. There at the end of the Chapter, he draws attention to what should be the spirit of an universal religion and ethics. It should be a settler of all religious differences and as a norm explaining all moral conduct.
We thank the author for offering the book to us for printing & publishing.
1st January, 1976
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