Bal Patil
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| Pre-Aryan Roots | 4 |
| Misleading Stereotypes About Jainism | 5 |
| Chandragupta Maurya And Jainism | 6 |
| Radha Kumud Mookerji And Chandragupta Maurya | 7 |
| Ashoka & Jainism | 9 |
| R. Thapar, And Historical Sources In Puranas And Vedas | 9 |
| E. H. Carr: What Is History? | 10 |
| Prof. M. Witzel & Vedic And Itihasa-Purana Tradition | 12 |
| Rigvedic Texts Like Tape Recorded Recitation? | 13 |
| Falsity Of Witzel's Vedic Historiography | 14 |
| Prof. H. Bechert On Mahavamsa | 16 |
| Jainism In Ceylon | 17 |
| Back To Witzel's Vedic Historiography | 19 |
| Sramanic Jain Religion | 20 |
| Rishabha, 1st Tirthamkar: His Antiquity | 21 |
| Asceticism And Rishabha's Sramana Culture | 22 |
| Yoga And Jainism | 23 |
| Swastika Sign And Time Computation | 24 |
| Rishabha As Epoch-Making Jain Sramanic Tirthamkara In Itihasa-Purana | 25 |
| India Known As Bharatvarsha After Bharata Son Of Rishabha And Rejection Of The Theory That Bharatvarsha Is Known After Dushyanta's Son | 26 |
| Pre-Vedic And Pre-Ayan Origins Of Jainism | 28 |
| Jaina Antiquity In Vedas | 28 |
| Ksatriya And Vratya Tradition In Jainism | 29 |
| Ahimsa And Vedic Culture | 30 |
| Ahimsa And The Idea Of Rebirth | 31 |
| Vegetarianism & Ahimsa In Buddhism And Jainism | 32 |
| Jainism And Brahmanic-Hinduism | 33 |
| Tirthamkara And The Concept Of Worship In Jainism | 34 |
| Siva, Rudra And Rishabhdeva | 35 |
| Rishabha, First Tirthamkar And Rudra | 36 |
| Are Jain Nastikas? | 38 |
| Why Worship Tirthamkars? | 38 |
| Evolution Of Jain Concept Of Temple | 39 |
| Evolution Of Chaitya, Ayatana As An Abode Of Yaksha | 39 |
| Chaitya Tree And Tree Worship | 40 |
| Yakshas In Jain Tradition | 41 |
| Bhavanam, Yaksa's Abode | 41 |
| Earliest Jina Image And Jaina Pantheon | 43 |
| Ayagapatas And Stupa At Kankali Tila, Mathura | 44 |
| Religious Character Of Ayagapatas | 44 |
| Stupas Precursor Of Jain Temple Architecture | 45 |
| Pre-Mahavira And Buddha Stupas | 45 |
| Kural By Saint Tiruvalluvar & Jainism In South India | 46 |
| Shankaracharya & Jain Mathas | 47 |
| Re-Writing Chronology Of Adi Shankaracharya | 49 |
| Pathashalas And Jaina Contribution To Learning & Education O Namah Siddham | 50 |
| Secularism Hindutva & Jainism In Modern India | 51 |
| Misrepresentation Of Jainism | 52 |
| Secularism & Indian Constitutional Preamble | 52 |
| Sudarshan And Hindu Rashtra | 54 |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee & Secularism | 55 |
| Jains & Article 25 Of Constitution | 57 |
| Modern Myth Of Hinduism | 58 |
| Art.25 And Religious Freedom | 59 |
| Savarkar & Hindutva | 60 |
| Hindutva And Minorities | 61 |
| Constitutional Subterfuge And Ambedkar | 62 |
| Supreme Court On Hindutva | 63 |
| Mahavira And His Message Of Ahimsa | 65 |
| Mahavira: Man & His Mission | 66 |
| Mahavira & His ‘Alleged' Meat-Eating | 67 |
| Mahavira & Buddha | 68 |
| Mahavira's Teachings | 69 |
| Bhagvad Gita And Theory Of Karma | 71 |
| A Note On The Hindu View Of Salvation | 71 |
| “The Gita As It Was” Rediscovering The Original Bhagwadgita | 73 |
| Five Jain Maha Vratas - Great Vows | 74 |
| Jaina Prayer | 75 |
| Syadvada Anekanta: Jain Theory Of Relativity Of Truth | 76 |
| Transhumanistic Message Of Jainism | 77 |