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Paper published in Ahimsa Voice,'1993.
Ayaro, II-3, 63-64, Ed. Muni Shri Nathmalji, Jain Svetambara Terapanthi Mahasabhā, Calcutta, 1967, p.29. Mularadhana of Sivarya, Solapur, 1935, gaha 777.
Prasna-vyakaraṇa-sūtra, Ed.Amar Muni, Sanmati Jnanapitha, Agra, 1973, Ch. VI-21.
Vide any edition of the Adipurana by Acarya Jinasena. For all details in this regard, vide Gommatesvara Commemoration Volume, Shravanabelagola, 1981.
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Vide Uttaradhyayana-sūtra, Ch.22.
There are thousands of such narratives in the Jaina Commentorial Literature and numerous Kathakosas composed in Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati and Kannada. For details vide Jaina Yoga by R.Williams, London Oriental Series, Volume 14, London, 1963, pp.110-116.
(i) It may be noted that just a few years ago ci., in 1985, the University of Cambridge had sponsored an International Seminar on Jainas as a Community, on the principal consideration that the Jainas are the only community in the world who scruporously practise ahimsa in their daily life. (ii) Moreover on the invitation of Prince Philip of England, Chariman of Worldwide Fund for Nature, an Indian Delegation of 21 Members (monks, scholars, social workers etc.) representing the Jaina Community all over the world, submitted (on 23.10.1990) a memorandum on the View of For Private & Personal Use Only
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