Jain Gyan
Four pages on how Jain life is actually lived — the Diwali account books, a wedding, a fast, and the words used for all of it.
- Chopda Pujan
- the Diwali account books
- Jain marriage
- a Jain wedding, step by step
- Everyday practice
- fasts, vows and daily practice
- Principles and vocabulary
- the principles and the words
How this section is written
Sources named, disagreements shown, gaps admitted
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Where the traditions differ, both are described and neither is treated as the default. Where two sources of equal standing disagree, both are printed and we do not pick one. This is religious content published to a religious community, and inventing a consensus that does not exist would be the worst thing these pages could do.
Where we could not verify something, the page says so in words rather than quietly leaving it out — because a gap that looks like completeness is its own kind of error.
Chopda Pujan
ચોપડા પૂજન
The account-book ritual on Diwali night: what it is, the sequence in both traditions, and exactly what is written on the first page — in all three variants, because the sources disagree.
Jain marriage
જૈન વિવાહ
The ceremony and what is specifically Jain in it, how a muhurat is fixed, which periods are avoided and why, and where Digambar and Shwetambar practice parts.
Everyday practice
રોજિંદો આચાર
Navkarsi, porisi, chauvihar and tivihar; the ten pachchakhans; ayambil; and the rules about eating after sunset and root vegetables, stated factually.
Principles and vocabulary
મૂળ સિદ્ધાંતો
Ahimsa, anekantavada, aparigraha and the three jewels; the traditions described without ranking them; and a glossary of the words used across this site.
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Sources
Where this came from
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- JAINpediaInstitutional or scholarly
- jainqq.org — Jain eLibraryInstitutional or scholarly
- jainkosh.org — Jaina-siddhanta-koshaInstitutional or scholarly
- ABTYP — TerapanthInstitutional or scholarly
- Wikipedia — SthanakvasiInstitutional or scholarly
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