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the principle of non-violence is applicable to everyday life. History tells us that there have been very strong and powerful Jaina rulers in India e g., Bimbisara, Chandragupta Maurya, Kharvela the Great, Kumara Pala and others whom historians have paid their glowing tributes for having established very powerful, just and benevolent administration in this country quite in keeping with the principle of non-violence as laid down for a householder. Turning to our own day, we can safely affirm that Mahatma Gandhi's practical life is an ideal of the practical working after the true conception of Jaina Ahimsa of which essential attributes are Vishwa Maitri.love and justice to all human beings. It was for these very reasons that he was regarded as an ideal saint. His dynamic spiritual love for the entire humanity and his sperit of self-less service, accommodation and adjustment after his strong belief and immovable faith in the principle of Ahimsa, made him what he was-Great. In great measure, his life itself holds a mirror to the interpretation of the principle of Ahimsa. The applicability of Ahimsa to life can be understood from the explanation given in the
