Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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RATNA TRAYA.
The Jaina sum up all their rules of conduct and all their doctrines, with their multifarious subdivisions, under the name of the Three Jewels, or Ratna Trayu (ca 74..
These are Jñānu (419), or Right Knowledge of the Jaina doctrines; Dars'ana ( Ezidi), or Right Faith in those doctrines; and Cāritrya (41(254), or Right Conduct in fulfilling the Jaina vows and duties; of these the first two are considered of no avail without the last.
It is interesting to notice in this connection that though the Buddhists also speak of Tri-ratna, or Three jewels, with them these terms denote three concrete things : Buddha, the Law and the Order.