. The Chicago prashnottar, or questions and answers on Jainism for the Parliament of Religions held at Chicago, in 1893. B. CHUNNILAL PANNALAL JEWELLER, BOMBAY. PUBLISHERS NOTE. This book was originally published in 1905with an introduction in Hindi by Lala JaswantEai Jaini of Lahore, and although the Hindiedition has met, in an ample, measure, the needsof the Hindi knowing public interested in thereligion of the Jains, it has proved but of littleuse to English-educated men—more especiallyto the people of Chicago and other places inAmerica interested in Jainism, at whose requestand for


. The Chicago prashnottar, or questions and answers on Jainism for the Parliament of Religions held at Chicago, in 1893. B. CHUNNILAL PANNALAL JEWELLER, BOMBAY. PUBLISHERS NOTE. This book was originally published in 1905with an introduction in Hindi by Lala JaswantEai Jaini of Lahore, and although the Hindiedition has met, in an ample, measure, the needsof the Hindi knowing public interested in thereligion of the Jains, it has proved but of littleuse to English-educated men—more especiallyto the people of Chicago and other places inAmerica interested in Jainism, at whose requestand for whose benefit the book was written by thedistinguished author on the occasion of theWorlds Parliament of religions at , there is at present a growing desireamong western scholars to know more ofJainism and its tenets, and to them the Hindiedition is of little use. In order to meet theserequirements and to make known to the westernworld the eternal truths of Jainism whichoccupies a high place among the ancient reli-gions of the world, we have ventured, with thepermission of the publisher of the Hindi edit


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