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holder owos responsibility to his household, he also owes duty to bis oity, bis country and bis nation, 80 & true Jain shall not be sitate to defend bis bearth and home, bis relatives, bis neighbours and bis country, if needed even by means of sword, as in such cases bis primary intention is not to commit any wrong, but to prevent the commission of wrong and to defend tho viotim, hence to fight tbe battles for protecting country, honour proper. ty & punisbing criminals is no hinga for a housebolder in Jainism. It is the reason that Jainas were not only con: querors in the realm of the spirit, but wero also beroes of war and state. History tells us that Sbrepika Bimbeera, Ajatsbaturu, Nandivardbane, Cbanderagupta, Asoka, Samprati, Kharavela, Amogbavarsha etc. etc. the grea. tast emperors and Chamundraya, Gangraj, Bijjala, Durgaraj, Boamashab and Dyulders etc. etc, the greatest field-martials were Jains. It is wrong to suppose that Jain's Abinsa is the cause of India's down-fall. The fact is that our holy mother land re-gained freedom oply with tbe weapon of Abinga. Had Jaias not been brave, tbe brave Rajputs would never appoint them as their Comander-inChiefs. Sardar V.B Patel bas already observed "The term Jain stands for Abing8 and Abinga teaches brave. ness' and Pt. Gourisbankar Biracbadd Ojba bas truly said, "India has produced Chivalrous persons and Jaips have never lagged behind in this respect inepite of the prominent place allotted to compassion in Jainism."'5
4. Practical Religion: Jainism 18 mainly divided into 'Muni-doarma' & House-bolders' dharma,' which are again subdivided into various stages, 8.) that even a lay. man with limited capacity of every caste and state may adopt it conveniently and consistently with due roxard to temporal advancenen ; tbus Jainism is pre-eminently a Practical Religion, 1. 2. This books Pages 419, 42 , 425 3. ma qf& an att ara #1 qaa' Ibid. Page 433 4. Glory of Gommatesvara ( Mercury Publishing House, Mad.
ras-10 ) Page 71. - 5. Tragaia e ha att gÍTEIA, 1411
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