jainas

Updated: May 27, 2025

The graminivorous "subjects," of course, could mot wish for anything better; but I doubt very much whether the beasts of prey, such as tigers, hyenas, and wolves, are content with the rules and the forcibly prescribed diet. Jainas themselves turn with disgust even from eggs and fish, and, in consequence, all the animals of which they have the care must turn vegetarians.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

Here terminates the adhikarana of 'unprovedness in every way. Not so, on account of the impossibility in one. The Bauddhas have been refuted. As now the Jainas also hold the view of the world originating from atoms and similar views, their theory is reviewed next.

- The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48