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SCHEME OF CONTENTS
GENERAL EDITORIAL
III-V
PREFACE
VI-VIII 1. INTRODUCTORY Definition. Antiquity. Description. Special Features. Jainological Studies in Modern Times.
1-9
II. THE TWENTY-FOUR TĪRTHANKARAS Cycle of Time. The Enjoying Age and the Fourteen Kulakaras. The Dawn of Civilization and the Age of Action. Traditional Account of the Tirthankaras from Rşabha to Mahāvīra Revival of Sramana Dharma in Post-Mahābhārata or Later Vedic Age and the Contribution to It of the Last Three Tīrthankaras, Ariștanemi, Pārsva and Mahāvīra.
10-20
III. HISTORY OF JAINISM AFTER MAHĀVĪRA Internal History of the Church. Spread and Expansion. Royal Patronage and Popular Support. Vicissitudes of Fortune.
21-37
IV. THE DOCTRINE Dharma Defined. Metaphysics and Ontology. Substances, Qualities and Modes. Cosmology and Cosmography. Classes of Jīvas. Saṁsāra and Transmigration. Doctrine of Karman. Seven Tattvas. Fourteen Stages of Spiritual Development. Liberation (Nirvāna). Divinity. Pragmatic Optimism.
38-57
