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Excerpt from Jain Etihas Society, Jain Itihas Series: A Lecture Janism, Delivered Before the Dharma Maha-Mahotsava or Great Religious Assemblage at Muttra, by Lala Benarsi Dass, M. A., Head Master, Victoria College, Lashkar, Gwalior, on 29th December, 1901 I stand before you this noon to speak on a religion which was preached in this Bharat varsha in time out of mind by the Kshatriyas, a religion that was preached neither by the' Brahmans, nor by the Vaishyas, nor by the Sudras, but I say, by the Kshatriyas. I stand before you to speak on a religion that was preached not\by such Kshatriyas as hunt life, sacrifice life, and eat life, but by Kshatriyas who made a universal procla mation Ahimsa Paramo Dharmahl Destroy no living creaturel Injure no living creature! This 15 the highest religion; who have said thus, spoken thus, declared thus, and explained thus: As is my pain when I am knocked, struck, menaced, beaten, burned, tormented, or deprived of life; and as I feel every pain and agony from death down to the pulling out of a hair; 1n the same way, be sure of this, all kinds' of living beings feel the same pain and agony as I, when they are ill. Treated in the same way. For this reason, all sorts of living beings should not be beaten, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor deprived of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.