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3 unusual facts about Paul Dundas


Jainism and non-creationism

As Paul Dundas puts it – “while Jainism is, as we have seen, atheist in a limited sense of rejection of both the existence of a creator God and the possibility of intervention of such a being in human affairs, it nonetheless must be regarded as a theist religion in the more profound sense that it accepts the existence of divine principle, the paramātmā i.e. God, existing in potential state within all beings”.

Madurai massacre

Paul Dundas writes that the story represents the abandonment of Madurai by Jains for economic reasons or the gradual loss of their political influence.

Sukhlal Sanghvi

Paul Dundas calls him as one of the most incisive modern interpreters of Jain philosophy.



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