Mahaveer Vani

Author(s): Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: Sastu Sahityavardhak Karyalay Mumbai

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manly virtues was to be attributed precisely to the preceding centuries of Buddhist and Jain influence on India. It is an infamous' calumny. No chapter of India's History has been more glorious than that of the Buddhist period under Ashok and others, when India accomplished a cultural conquest of the world, and the East became a synonym for Wisdom of Life and values everlasting.
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"I readily admit that regeneratin and decay are the Law of life, of all living organisms. But if Shankar found contemporary Buddhism steeped in processes ol decay, a man of his intellect and gifts should hav crusaded against' prevailing practices, as did Gand against the curse of untouchability, and brought ab a complete reformation. He could have recast Bra nism and brought about a complete reorientat Hinduism by a process of assimilation and s as did modern masters, Vivekanand downwards, i have besides known that the retrograde Bra revival with which he sought to replace. Bud equally subject to processes of corruption a could not survive for all time."
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