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JAINA BIOLOGY
Preface
Jaina Biology is a unified body of facts and theories, concerned with all the myriad facets of all kinds of living beings, and it is not simply a mixture of Botany and Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology heredity and evolution, or any other of the life sciences, for, the Jainācāryas studied the world of life from the religious and philosophieal points of view on the basis of the concept of spiritual value of life.
To bring to the fore the biological principles which underlie the study of living things in Jaina Biology', some of the major generalizations of Jaina Biology are briefly discussed in the Introduction of the work. These, of course, cannot be fully appreciated at the first reading but they should be helpful in proving a frame of reference for the succeeding chapters.
The Introduction, the first chapter and the first section of the second chapter of 'Jaina Biology'-emphasize similarity of life-processes of all organisms, for many of the advances in Biology have been demonstrated first in experiments with micro-organisms as it is found in Jaina Biology that the study of life began with the concept of Nigodas (Micro-organisms).
Jaina Biology contains partial discussions of cell-structure, cellmetabolism, photosynthesis and genetics to some extent.
In writing a text of Jaina Biology it is difficult to steer a true course between the scylla of superficiality and the charybdis of over detail. This work attempts to present some facts and principles of Biology without superficiality, yet without undue emphasis on detail. It emphasizes the basic unity of life and the fundamental similarities of the problems, faced and solved by all living substances.
After the introductory part describing the biological sciences of scientific information on Jaina Biology, the scientific method and some generalizations, inter-relations of organism and environment, the rst chapter describes and explains the fabrie.
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