Jainism in Bihar

Author(s): P C Roy Choudhary
Publisher: P C Roy Choudhary Patna

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very great piety and renunciation. There are bound to be Jains like Hindus of other types as well, but they are certainly not visible very much on the surface. It is always a delight to meet Jain Sadhus and listen to their discourses. It is also a pleasant feature of a Jain householder that he is very charitable and if he makes money on the one hand, he spends it lavishly on the other, for helping his fellowmen in various ways.
The Jains have also raised the most beautiful of temples at almost impossible places; and for these they have spent their money like water so that the emblems of their faith may stand for all time at all places, as proofs of their intense devotion and their open-hearted generosity. On high mountain tops, here, there and everywhere, we see these great and beautiful structures of marble, even if marble had to be dragged from distant places to make this possible. In this book of Mr. Roy Choudhury, the reader will find Jainism and the achievements of the followers of the faith studied in varied facets; and those who belong to Bihar will be particularly delighted to find that unknown to them, so many antiquities, representative of the great religion exist in various districts of their State.
The great characteristic of Independence is that people are thrown on their own resources, and become particularly conscious of the legacy of