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.: ".O Arhan I you arc cquipped with the arrow of vastuswarupa, the law of teaching and the, ornaments of the four infinito qualities. O Arhan! you have attained the omniscient knowlcdge in which the entirc universe is reflected. O Arhan! You crc protecting all the Jccvas in the world. O1 "The destroyer of kama (Lust)! There is no -strong person cqual to you."
-Yajur Veda, Chapter 19, Mantra 14. "Hindu culture is a part of Indian culture. Jain and Buddhist cultures are also Indian. They are not ( parts of ) Hindu culturc."
--Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Discovery of India ) " Bhagawan Mahavira taught Jainism again. He was thc twentyfourth avatara (incarnation). Beforc him there were twenty throc avataras such as Rishabha. Nemi, Parsva ctc., They also propagated Jainism. In this manner there was „Jainism cxisting cven before these twenty-three avataras. From this the antiquity of Jainisin is established."
-Lokamanya Bala Gangadar Tilak. “ The Emperor Asoka propagated Jainism -as far as Kashmir."
Abul Fasci, (A gom in Akbar's Court).
