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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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1801
R. C. AGRAWALA-Vaisnavits gleanings from the mediaeval inscriptions of Marwar. (Ind, Hist. Cong. 17th Sess. Ahmedabad), 1954.
P. 164. The Nadol plates of Rajaputra Kirtipāla (E. I., IX, Pp. 67-8 dated v. s. 1218; testimony to harmonious relations existing between Jainas and the Brahmanas ; Brahma, Visnu and Siva famous as Jinas.
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H.J. Forman and R. GAMMON.
Truth is one. New York, 1955.
Pp. 106-115. 6. Jainism and Sikhism.
Jainism, the creed that will not kill a gnat; A vital religion in India today, with millions of followers. Mahāvira, founder of Jainism ;
Jina', a conqueror, who conquered himself. Born forty years before Buddha in 599 B.C. All Jaina mothers of great saints have annunciatory dreams. Trishalā dreamed of a white elephant, white bull, a bear, Lakshmi or Shri, a garland of flowers, white moon, sun, and seven other dreams, Tirthankara, a pilot to guide humanity across the troubled stream of life to the other shore. Mahāvira married Yashodā and had a daughter. He left home in 570 or 569 B.c. to escape life to liquidate the debts of Karma accumulated in past lives, achieve Nirvāṇa and end forever the ceaseless round of birth and death. The Digambara or sky-clad ones, wore no clothes at all, to show the uttermost poverty. In our own day tbat nakedness is somewhat modified. Mohandas K. Gandhi's loin cloth was a sop to modern convension from one at heart a Digambara. Possessions, attachments. are insperable obstacles to enlightenment. Life of Mahāvira ; his supreme knowledge, non-injury; Jainism a revolt against Brahmanism The five vows non-injury, truthfulness, no-stealing, chastity and non-attachment. M. K. Gandhi took vow before a Jaina sädhu that he would abstain from wine, meat and women. The twelve vows of a lay brother or sister. The Jaina idea of Karma is perhaps more concrete than it is in either Hinduism or Buddhism. Jaina teinples of India are among architectural glories. The Jains are the only religious body that tries to extirpate cruelty.
Plates : Jaina temple of Calcutta-one of world's beautiful buildings ; Jaina colossus Gomateswara ; Mahāmastakabhisheka or great head-anointing ceremony ; Jain statue in the Sanghiji's temple of the 11th century near Jaipur.
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