The richness of Indian culture is chiefly the results of its three ancient systems of religion and philosophy namely the Vedic, the Jain and the Buddhist. Anyone who ignores the study of any of these gets a very incomplete picture of the history and social life of this country and he fails to grasp the essential features of Aryan thought through all its phases of development. The Jains claim a great antiquity for their religion. Jainism as a system of thought, is ...