Jaina Political Thought

Author(s): G C Pandey
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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them rightness depended on being spiritual, not on a law code; kingship could not avoid evil, nor the kings evade common moral duties; war and violence of all kinds needed to be avoided; the social order was neither divine nor natural. For the Jainas the ideal society would consist of the fourfold sangha.
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