________________ Id#rodaction thought it necessary to adopt different methods of imparting knowledge to different *jivas' or souls according to their capacities of grasping and understanding things. Hence they divided the souls into three main classes viz. श्रद्धानुसारी or those who put complete faith in their pro ceptors and their proachings and always act according to their advice, (2) Cere or those who put faith in their preceptors and their preachings after giving a full scope to their powers of reflection and reasoning, and (3) arrangert or those who come to acquire Faith by reading stories and lives of great persons. We find even to-day that all the souls of the world fall under one or the other of these three main classes. 4. As for the Shraddhanusaris, the Acharyas. : had no anxiety, for they always rigin of the have an inborn belief in the story literature of the Jainas. Nine Dignities etc. As for the Tarkanusaris, they (i. e, the Aobaryas) have always paid proper attention to them for whom they have composed important Sutras and various other religious books which expound the principles of fundamental truth and discuss the questions whioh enable the soul to understand the true nature of this
