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teeth and and nails etc., we see that they are different in man that in that of carnivorous animals like lions, tigers, bears etc, The difference of this construction of teeth etc., is seen in herb. ivorous animals like cows, buffaloes goats etc; which makes them unable to kill through their teeth and nail. Further, man's body is similar to that of a monkey and if the food of the monky is vegetarian main's food also must be vegetarian and so flesh eating is unnatural and is attended with servere consequencess, and so must be avoied by man. This avoiding of flesh-eating is not only imperative on man, but very beneficial to him. If a man wants to be happy in this world, it is not only essential to avoid violence in food matters but in every walk of life. To those who are earnest enquirers and want to avoid Violence to life it becomes their first duty to study Biology.
Our author, Acharya Bhagavan Shree Vadivetāl Shanti Sur. iji, has, in this kindness to us, composed the gist of Biology in the form of a small treatise, called Jiva Vichāra. He has tried to shew herein in a nutshell the nature of life, their division in to many categories, their bodies, senses and energies, their lifetime and how the life remains in the body etc;-All these details are beautifully described by studying which we can become beginners in its practice and save ourselves from sin and eventually reach perfect state of emancipation.
Our Jain Mission Society is trying in its humble capacity to make this smati treatise reach into the hands of every-body, by translating the same in different languages. The first edition has been published in Hini through Pandit Hiralalji Duged Nyaya Thirtha and we are getting it published in English through Our Holiness the Muni Maharaj Sri Ratna Prabha Vijayaji, who though 79 years in age, has, however, finished the work in spite of his ascetic hardship of penance, general wenkness of health, and heart-trouble and we cannot thank bim sufficiently for the trouble he has taken.
While engaged in writing small supplement to this work, re
