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-PREFACE,
This booklet has been written only to please Muni Sri Kanakvijaya, whom the author has known since 1929.
The idea of making the book useful to a wider cicle of readers has been of a later growth. Technical words and philosophical and metaphysical expressions have been scrupulously avoided. If the booklet happens to give pleasure to other readers, it will be only a happy accident.
It is the belief of the author that Mahavir, like all great teachers, has a message not for any particular sect but for all humanity.
