Tattvartha Sutra Jainagam samanvay

Author(s): Atmaramji Maharaj
Publisher: Ratnadevi Jain Ludhiyana

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For use in Jain Schools the Upadhyaya compiled a set of readers wherein he has combined sacred and secular instruction.
Upadhyaya Atma Ram Ji is a thorough scholar of Jaina literature not only on the traditional lines, but on the comparative lines also. Some years ago he published a valuable paper in the Hindi monthly "Saraswati" wherein he compared a number of passages from the Jaina Sutras with similar ones found in the Buddhist literature. The present volume i. e., the Tattvarthasutra-JainagamaS-amanavaya is another work of this kind. Here, of course, the material compared comes from the Jaina sources only. The Tattvart ha or the Tattvarthadhigama Sutra (also called the Moksa-Sastra) is the