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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Geoffrey L. Rund-The Logic of Vegetarianism (Souvenir presented in honour of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan) Madras, 1962. Pp. 29-38.
Pp. 35-36. Jainism was started by Mahāvīra in the 6th century B.C. A metaphysical Religion with strong ethical observances. Everything has a soul; it is just now being confirmed by material science, Jains strict vegetarians-oldest religion in the world-Jain asceticism-vegetarian systems of living will become universal through dire necessity.
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The Jain Siddhanta Bhawan : An Introduction. (Jain Ant. vol XXII, No. I), Arrah, 1963, Pp. 14 to 15.
The Jain Siddhanta Bhawan' better known as the 'Central Jain Oriental library, Arrah, founded by Devakumar Jain of Arrah in the year 1906 contains 3,179 Ms. on palm leaf and 3,500 manuscripts on paper. Most of these ms. are believed to be at least five hundred years old. Besides the manuscripts the Library has nearly 9,000 published books on religion, philosophy, history and literature in nearly all the Indian and some foreign languages, most conspicuous among these collections being the illustrated 'Fain Rāmāyana' and the 'Bhaktamara'.
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R. M. Dag-Some Faina Samskäras (Jain Ant., Vol. XXII, No. I). Arrah, 1963. Pp. 25 to 28.
Jinasena's Mahapurāņa is a great synthesis of Hindu and Jain culture. Like the Hindu Dharma Sastras the Mahāpuräna regards the Samskāras as purificatory rites. Some of the main Samskāras described by Jinasena are :
(a) Adhana---foetus-laying ceremony. (b) Priyodbhava-Celebration of the advent of the child in this world,
(c) Nāmakarņa-Naming of the child.
(d) Bahiryāna--Same as Niskramana ceremony of the Hindus, the performance of this rite being done and the child can be taken out from the room in which it was born.
(e) Annaprāśana-Occasion on which the child is fed with cooked food for the first time.
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