RE: Jainism
July 17, 2020 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2020 at 9:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, and they were constant victims at the height of the islamic slave trade. These interactions lead to jainism reconsidering it's stance on violence. Ultimately, jain princes and societies acted just like any other, regardless of what their magic books told them to do. We might also want to recall that jainism is the establishment myth of an indian empire....and it's unlikely that they peace and loved their way into that anymore than later jain rulers would. Up to and including the transportation of captive prisoners as a workforce, or the offspring of local potentates as hostages. They weren't slaves, you see, they were bad people being punished - much like we contend today.
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