Book Title: Nirayavaliyao
Author(s): A S Gopani, V J Chokshi
Publisher: Gurjar Granthratna Karyalay

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir xii) Introduction. and who ultimately practises one of the main Anasanas or religious deaths (for which vide foot-note on p. 55 of the translation ). Such a religious life leads to heaven and thence to liberation. The first two lectures of the third section emphasize the same thing as the last section and tell us nothing "Tbird Section. more. The third lecture seems to have been intended to show the superiority of the Jain Vows of Renunciation over the Brahmanic Vows of asceticism; and this is done more effectively by the introduction of a god-a supernatural element which is meant to convey home to the readers the supreme importance of the Jain Vows over all other vows by implying that even a god testified to it by emphasizing it to Somila, wh), therefore, though perverted to Brahmanism in the beginning, became a convert to Jainisın in the end and got liberation. Such supernatural elements are often introduced very successfully by Shakespeare in his dramas to emphasize certain facts or principles and it is, there. fore, to the great credit of the ancient Jain For Private and Personal Use Only

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