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Indu Jain
ISBN : 81-7508-439-1
Vol. No : 730
The two Jain tales in this
Amar Chitra Katha deal with Shrenik and Jinadatta whose stories teach the
importance of being astute and insightful without necessarily indulging
in shrewdness or deceit. Jain monks took a keen interest in the spiritual
emancipation of the common people. To make their terse philosophy intelligible
and interesting to any ordinary individual, they used the medium of stories.
Thousands of such didactic stories in Sanskrit and Prakrit have come down
to us.‘Shrenik’ is retold from Harishena’s Bhrihat Katha Kosha (10th century)
and ‘The Hidden Truth’ from Rajashekara’s Vinoda Katha Sangraha (14th century).
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