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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Introduction.
| xiii writers—the Sûtrakaras—who have used this supernatural element with as great a success as that prince of poets. Other great Indian writers of old are also not lacking in this capacity of that genius though none can surpass him. This lecture also gives eventually a lot of information about the various kinds of Brahmin ascetics in ancient times and their modes of living. It is important from a historical point of view as it tells us something about the Brahmanical religious practices current in the 6th century B. C. It also gives us some idea about the planets in Jainism which, according to Jain mythology, are real living beings who enjoy the fruits of their own good or evil deeds.
The fourth lecture of this section is also interesting from a social as well as a religious point of view. It tells us about the well-known craving of Indian women for children (preferably sons) which existed in India even as early as the 5th or the 6th century B.C. We got a similar information in Vivigasuyam, Book I, Lect. 7. (Vide p. ix of the Introduction to the translation of that book published by V. J. Chokshi
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