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श्री वीतरागाय नमः
It was customary with the ancients to offer obeisance to he Holy Tirthankara (God), by praising His divine qualities, before commencing any religious or educative work, so as to destroy and burn up, by the fire of contemplation of divine glory, all predisposition to bigotry, prejudice and other like causes of wrong knowledge. Having the same object in view, I also bow to the pure Veetraga (passionless) Arhanta (God), who has attained to omniscience by the destruction of the knowledge-obstructing energies of Karma, in whose all-embracing Jnana scintillate, like stars in the infinite firmament, all the objects of knowledge of the three periods of Time, the past, present and future, and whose Word is the final authority to be appealed to in case of doubt and dispute.
C. R. JAIN.
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