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wielded tremendous influence during all the subsequent centuries and brought peace to mankind, not only in India but also in far distant countries. By the reaction of one religion on another, all the three religious systems became modified and more and more dignified and elevated, and the harsh and cruel elements in each were toned down by force of the very rivalry that existed between them.
In this brochure a translation is given of the short work recently composed by Muni Nyāyavijayaji in Sanskrita, entitled, the Vira Vibhuti, or The Grandeur of Vira. This work (in fifty seven verses) gives in a nut-shell the story of the life of Mahāvīra as preserved in the Svetambara tradition. He has also made an attempt to lay special stress on such anecdotes from His life as have a bearing on the problems of present day society, and has described most vividly the method followed by Mahāvīra in His life and the ideals first set up by Him. In Muni Nyāyavijayaji's own words, Mahavira's preachings can be summed up in three simple words:
(i) Ahimsā, or non-injury.
(ii) Sanyama, or control of the sense organs. (iii) Sevā,
or service-the three corner-stones on which the great structure of Jainism is reared.
Like a true saint, Muni Nyāyavijayaji here exhorts his fellow men to realise these three principal tenets of Jainism, and to put them into practice in their
