Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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PREFACE
of men like Weber, Bühler, Jacobi, Hoerule, and others, the credibility of its tradition has been established, and it has been accorded the recognition due to its antiquity and importance. There are also evidences of a more general interest in Jainism as a practical religion. Many persons–Europeans and others—have asked for a small and reliable book on the subject, and not being aware of any work which precisely answers the requirements, I have ventured to put together these Outlines, addressed to a public in India and Europe. The vastness of the subject may help to excuse the inadequacy, of which I am fully conscious.
The Outlines were sketched in England in 1908-9, for the purpose of conveying to Brother H. Warren what little I knew of Jainism. Mr. Warren typed his notes, which helped me considerably in preparing the English portion of the book. My friend Brother Jaina-bhushana Brahmachari Sital Pershadji, of Bombay, helped me to select the original texts at Allahabad in 1913. In the same year in London Dr. F. W. Thomas, of the India Office Library and President of the Jaina Literature Society, London, most kindly undertook to help me with the publication of the book. For the labour which he has