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23. Six Essential Duties of Votary

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Six Essential Duties of Votary (See the earlier section on the stage of Househ old ership) An individual is called the best of the votaries who is engaged in six daily duties of (i) Worship (ii) Veneration of Preceptors (iii) Self-study (iv) Restraint (v) Austerity (vi)Donation who has the best of the lineages / family....

22. Four Duties of Votary

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Four Duties of Votary There are four kinds of duty of the votaries32: (1) Worship (2) Donation (3) Good conduct (Ṡīla) (4) Fasting or austerity The worship means to offer proper services to the Gods, scriptures and preceptors with eight kinds of materials. The renunciation of foods, medicine etc. for the benefit of self or...

21. Four Stages of Life

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Four Stages of Life (Asramas) The seventh primary text of Upāsakādhyayana (Studies on Votaries) has stated that there are four life-stages of Jaina individuals : (a)Stage of Celibacy (Brahmacarya (b)Stage of Householdership (Gṛhastha) (c)Supreme Stage of Votary  (Vānaprastha) (d)Saint or Ascetic (Sanyāsa, renunciation) (a)Stage of Celibacy (Brahmacarya) There are five kinds of celibates : (1)Sacred-threaded...

Jains’ Contribution to Indian Culture and Society

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Jains' Contribution to Indian Culture and Society The Jains are an ancient community of India with their own distinctive religion and philosophy, worship and rituals, social customs and cultural traditions. TheJain identity is crystallized around Jainism which also provides the Jain with a world-view and a way of life that embodies self-reliance, social equality, inter-group...

Pt. Gopal Das Baraiya

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Pt. Gopal Das Baraiya (1867—1 917) Founder of Shri Gopal Jain Sidhanta Mahavidyalaya at Morena and creator of a large number of Jain scholars in the country through this famous centre of learning, Pt. Gopal Das Baraiya would ever be remembered for his yeomen services to the Jain religion. He was born at Agra and...

Shri Firozi Lal Jain

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Shri Firozi Lal Jain (1906-27-12-1971) Religious minded late Shri Firozi Lai Jain was born at Gohana (Haryana) in 1906. After doing matriculation from Delhi in 1924 he served with a contractor at Mathura for about 11 years. He settled at Delhi in 1935 and did property and timber business. M/s. Sita Ram Firozi Lai Pvt....

Rai Bahadur Dwarka Das

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Rai Bahadur Dwarka Das Deeply religious minded R. B. Dwarka Das, eldest son of Lala Than Singh, was born at Nihtaur in district Bijnor (U. P.) in 1859. While dying L. Than Singh had instructed him to do daily exercise, not to borrow and to earn honestly which Sh. Dwarka Das had observed earnestly till...

Babu Dev Kumar Jain

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Babu Dev Kumar Jain (1876—1908) Genius B. Dev Kumar Jain, grand-son of scholar-zamindar Pt. Prabhu Das and son of B. Chandra Kumar Jain, was born in that rich family at Arrah. In a short lived life of 31 years he earned a good name for his dedicated religious and social services. After the death cf...

Shri Chandmal Saraogi Pandya

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Shri Chandmal Saraogi Pandya (3-1-1912—18-12-1974) A foremost industrialist and businessman of Assam, deeply religious minded Shri Chandmal Saraogi was born at Lalgarh (Rajasthan). After matriculation from Calcutta in 1930 he joined there M/s. Saligram Rai Chunni Lai Bahadur and Co. For reasons of his extraordinary business intelligence within few years time he became its Managing...

Pt. Chainsukh Das Jain Nyayatirtha

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Pt. Chainsukh Das Jain Nyayatirtha (22-1-1899—16-1-1969) Pt. Chainsukh Das was bom at village Bhadwa in Distt. Jaipur. While only three years old one of his legs was paralysed. He received higher education in Sanskrit and Prakrit at Syadwad Mahavidyalaya, Varanasi and passed Nyayatirtha examination from Bengal Sanskrit Association. Thereafter he was appointed Head Master of...
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