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Write brief essay on Essence of Early Jainism.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Period of Mahajanapadas

Early Jainism was not merely one more sect among the sixth-century-BC heterodox movements but a complete ethical-metaphysical system built on a single organizing conviction: that every particle of existence, animate or seemingly inanimate, possesses consciousness and therefore a claim to non-injury. Its essence lay less in theology than in conduct — a shift from ritual-centred…

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