The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.s2.37

c20.s2.37

The teachings of religion are only one influence that go to form the character of a people. Christian gospels recommend renunciation and meekness as strongly as the Jain and Buddhist scriptures, and yet Christian nations have been most worldly-minded and agressive. What very often happens is that people seek to cover their own weakness and cowardice, which have been due to causes that have very little to do with religion, under the specious name of religion and philosophy by distorting their teachings. In the face of the achievements of the Jain princes and generals of our period, we can hardly subscribe to the theory that Jainism and Buddhism were chiefly responsible for the military emasculation of the population that led to the fall of Hindu India.