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for good environment at national level and also a global code of environmental ethics, to guide the behavior of the global society.18 Perhaps the seeds of new world order were already sown, through the Ahimsa March undertaken by Late Acarya Mahāprajña the sprouting has begun but the soil with appropriate nutrients is absent. The soil is a new philosophy of Jaina life and the basic nutrient is the environmental ethics. So adoption of Jaina nonviolent way of life style is the need of the hour for global environmental preservation, ecological balance and for the very human survival.
References.
1. Jain, S.M. Environmental Ethics, Prakrit Bharati Academy, Jaipur, 2006, p. 1
2. Tattvārtha Sūtra, Umāsväti, 5.21
3. Colin Tudge, Global Ecology, Natural History Museum Publication, London, 1991, p. 129
4. Ibid, p. 112
5. Heidmaun, Jean, Cosmic Odyssey, Cambridge University Press, Britain, 1989, p. 165
6. Acārānga Sutra, 1.5.5.5.
7. History of Western Political Thought p. 584
8. Maneka Gandhi, Head and Tails, The Other India Press, Mapusa Goa, 1994, p. 7
9. Thich Nhat Hanh, Inter being: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism, ed. by Fred Eppsteever, Delhi, 1997, p. 43
Leggett, Jeremy (ed.), Global Warming, The Green-peace Report, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990, p. 150
11. Rajiv K. Sinha, Development without Destruction, Environmentalist Publisher, Jaipur, 1994, p. 95
12. Ibid, p. 127
13. Leggett, Jeremy (ed.), Global Warming, op. cit., p. 150 14. Rajiv K. Sinha, Development without Destruction, op. cit. p. 5
15. M.S. Sethi and Indrajeet Kaur Sethi, Understanding Our Environment, p. 233
16. Maneka Gandhi, Head and Tails, op. cit., P. 54 17. Acaranga Sūtra, (Angasuttāņi, JVB, 1992, 5.101 18. Jain, S.M., Environmental Ethics, op. cit, p. 10 *
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