Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.15
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.15
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c14.t1.15
Even at times very trifling causes and incidents stirred deep religious feelings. Bharata, for instance, saw his finger devoid of the ring and it looked ugly and this cause was sufficient enough to make him renounce the world¹⁰ King Dummuha beheld the banner of Indra fall down and adopted the ascetic life.¹¹ Aritthanemi saw the animals kept in enclosures for slaughtering purposes and it induced in him a sense of the transitoriness of things.¹²