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Umakant Premanand Shah
Deputy Director, Oriental Institute, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Author of Studies in Jaina Art: Akota Bronzes.
Umakant Premanand Shah,
Paul Dundas
Paul Dundas Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Jainism, Indian religion teaching a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence (ahimsa, literally “non-injury”) to all living creatures. Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence and an integral part of South Asian religious belief and practice. While often employing concepts shared with Hinduism and Buddhism, the result of a common cultural and linguistic background, the Jain tradition must be regarded as an independent phenomenon rather than as a Hindu sect or a Buddhist heresy, as some earlier Western scholars believed. The name Jainism derives from ...(100 of 7862 words)

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