Jainism

By Katie Macdonald


Index

"I renounce killing of living beings whether subtile or gross, whether movable or immovable. Nor shall I myself kill living beings (nor cause others to do it, nor consent to it)."
-The first vow of a Jaini Monk, c. 5th century B.C. in Sacred Books of the East, Vol.22 (1)

(1)Ralph L. Woods (editor), The World Treasury of Religious Quotations (New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc.,1966) p. 525