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Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra)

March 10, 2023jambudweep

Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra) Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra) is a standard book dealing with the ethical code of householders. *When the body is healthy, noble men should try to maintain it through suitable nourishment and activity. When disease supervenes, appropriate medicines should be administered to cure it. If the body, ignoring the services rendered (for its maintenance and curing),...

The Festival of Death

March 10, 2023jambudweep

The Festival of Death By Late Shri Champat Rai Jain Death is a horrid theme. No one is happy at the thought of it, even thoughtless, irresponsible youth, who lightly talks of it. According to Rousseau, the man who professes not to fear death is a liar! This is true in all cases except those...

Sallekhanā and Saint

March 10, 2023jambudweep

Sallekhanā and Saint Chapter VIII (How to Die) of the book “Sannyasa-Dharma” by Late Shri Champat Rai Jain The one undertaking or business of the sādhu (homeless ascetic) is the overthrow of death, which is held in the utmost dread by the generality of mankind. The sādhu aims at its destruction from the very commencement, ...

Acharya Amritchandra

March 10, 2023jambudweepDigamber Muni

Acharya Amritchandra Acharya Amritchandra was a digambara acharya who lived in the tenth century (Vikram Samvat). Puruşārthavsiddhyupāya Acharyaji is the author of Puruşārthasiddhyupāya which deals with the conduct of householder (sravak) in detail. Puruşārthasiddhyupāya also deals extensively with the Jaina concept of ahimsa (non-injury) particularly in reference to its observance as a minor vow (anuvrata)...

Acharya Samantabhadra

March 10, 2023jambudweepDigamber Muni

Acharya Samantabhadra Acharya Samantabhadra was a famous Jaina saint, said to have lived about the latter part of the 2nd century A. D. Jain texts composed by Acharyaji Ratna Karanda Sravakachara Svayambhu stotra Āpta-mīmāṁsā (Logic of the Omniscient Lord)

Pancham Kaal

March 9, 2023jambudweep

Pancham Kaal (Panćama Kāla) Pancham (fifth) kaal (time), hence the period of time is the one that is actually current now. It is the period of deterioration, characterized by conditions of existence that would slowly become very painful and distressing. It commenced only 2460 years ago, and has still got 18540 years to run. There...

Vardhaman Mahāvīr

March 9, 2023jambudweepLord Mahaveer, Tirthankaras

Vardhaman Mahāvīr 'Namāh śri Vardhamāna-e nirdhutakalilātmane''''Sālokānāma trilokānāma yadā-vidyā darpanāyate!'' I bow to Śri Vardhamāna Mahāvīra who has washed off the impurities of karmic filth from His Soul, andIn Whose Perception scintillate the three Worlds and the infinity of Space, as in a mirror ! Vardhaman Mahāvīr was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of ''avasarpini''. In...

Jainism And Christianity

March 9, 2023jambudweep

Jainism And Christianity Jainism and Christianity are two major religions. JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE by BARRISTER CHAMPAT RAI JAIN Jainism claims to be a Science. It was founded by MAN; "properly qualified MEN" have been confirming and re-confirming its doctrine. Put- in a nutshell, its teaching is only this: man is not only a bundle...

Tirthankara- The Founder of Jainism

March 9, 2023jambudweepHistory Of Jainism, Tirthankaras

Tirthankara- The founder of Jainism There is a special fascination in the number four and twenty; the Hindus have twenty-four avataras (incarnations) of their favourite god, Vishnu; there were twenty-four counsellor gods of the ancient Babylonians; the Buddhists posit four and twenty previous Buddhas, that is teaching gods. The Zoroastrians also have twenty-four Ahuras who...

Jain Academic Institutions Of Dharmsthal Foundation

March 6, 2023jambudweep

Jain Academic Institutions Of Dharmsthal Foundation S.D.M. college of Arts, Commerce & Science, Ujire S.D.M Law College, Mangalore and J.S.S Sakri Law College, Hubli. S.D.M. College of Ayurveda and Hospital Udupi and Hassan. S.D.M College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad. S.D.M College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad. S.D.M. Cranio Facial Hospital, Dharwad. S.D.M College...

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