Intolerance Towards Jainism
1. Cannot touch a Jain
📚 Brahmanda Purana 3.14.88 📚
“It is laid down that one gets defiled by touching a woman in her menses, a woman in confinement, a dog, a Cāṇḍāla, nudes (like Digambara Jainas) Nagnas and others, and those persons who had carried a dead body.”
2. Jainism opposes the Vedas and is the root to all sins
📚 Padma Purana 2.38.25-30📚
“When Kali-yuga sets in, all men, deluded by sins, will act after having resorted to the Jaina faith. Men will abandon Vedic practices, and will commit sins. There is no doubt that the Jaina faith is the root of sin. O best king, the fall of those men, who are heaps of sins, is brought about by this great delusion. Govinda (i.e. Viṣṇu), the destroyer of all sins, will be (appearing) for their destruction and for nothing else. Taking the form of his liking he will restrain (them) from sins. When sins will have thus accumulated, he, the god will be (appearing) as Kalki for the destruction of the Mlecchas; there is no doubt about it. Give up the behaviour of (i.e. proper for) Kali-yuga and resort to merit. Behave truthfully; become the guardian of your subjects.”
📚 Shrimad Bhagavatam 5.6.9📚
“Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, the King of Koṅka, Veṅka and Kuṭaka whose name was Arhat, heard of the activities of Ṛṣabhadeva and, imitating Ṛṣabhadeva’s principles, introduced a new system of religion. Taking advantage of Kali-yuga, the age of sinful activity, King Arhat, being bewildered, gave up the Vedic principles, which are free from risk, and concocted a new system of religion opposed to the Vedas. That was the beginning of the Jain dharma. Many other so-called religions followed this atheistic system.”
📚 Shrimad Bhagavatam 5.6.11📚
“Low-class people, due to their gross ignorance, introduce a system of religion that deviates from the Vedic principles. Following their own mental concoctions, they automatically fall down into the darkest regions of existence.”
📚 Kurma Purana 1.12.261📚
“Those various scriptures which are contrary to Srutis and Smrtis seen in this world, are based on Tamo-guna or ignorance. Belief in them or practicing in accordance with them is a Tamasa activity. They, i.e., those contrary to Vedas are the cults of Kapala, Bhairava, Pancaratras, Yamala, Vama, and Arhata and others similar to these also. In another incarnation of mine, these scriptures having been promulgated by me to delude the people who themselves try to mislead other persons by propagating their false scriptures.”
📚 Brahmanda Purana 3.14.38b📚
“Formerly, in the battle between the Devas and the Asuras, the Asuras were defeated. They created the heretics like Vrddhasravakis, Nirgranthas (nude Jainas), Sakyas (Buddhists), Jivaskas, and Karpatas.”
📚 Brahmanda Purana 2.31.65📚
“After the advent of the Kali age, many types of heretics crop up. They may be Buddhists wearing ochre-colored robes, Jainas, Kāpālikas, and others who sell the Vedas. Still others are those who sell holy centers of pilgrimage.”
📚 Matysa Purana 24.47-49📚
“Brihaspati then went and deluded the other sons of Raji with false philosophy and established the Jina religion opposed to the Vedas. Though himself a knower of the Vedas, Indra, on finding the sons of Brihaspati propagating a religion different from the Vedas based on a show of reason only, killed them with his mighty thunderbolt.”
📚 Vishnu Purana 3.18.14-26 📚
“Then the same deluder, putting on garments of a red color, assuming a benevolent aspect, and speaking in soft and agreeable tones, addressed others of the same family, and said to them, ‘If, mighty demons, you cherish a desire either for heaven or for final repose, desist from the iniquitous massacre of animals (for sacrifice), and hear from me what you should do. Know that all that exists is composed of discriminative knowledge. Understand my words, for they have been uttered by the wise. This world subsists without support, and engaged in the pursuit of error, which it mistakes for knowledge, as well as vitiated by passion and the rest, revolves in the straits of existence.’ In this manner, exclaiming to them, ‘Know!’ (Budhyadwam), and they replying, ‘It is known’ (Budhyate), these Daityas were induced by the arch deceiver to deviate from their religious duties (and become Bauddhas), by his repeated arguments and variously urged persuasions.”
3. Hell for Jains
📚 Devi Bhagavatam 12.9.91-100 📚
“Some of them began to mark on their bodies various heretical signs, e.g., Taptamūdrā, etc.; some became Kāpālikas; some became Kaulas; some Bauddhas and some Jainas. Many of them, though learned, became lewd and addicted to other’s wives and engaged themselves in vain and bad disputations. For these, they will have to go again surely to the Kumbhīpāka hell.”
📚 Agni Purana 16.1-6 📚
“I am describing the manifestation (of Viṣṇu) as Buddha, by reading and hearing which one gets wealth. Once in the battle between devas and asuras, devas were defeated by the daityas (demons, sons of Diti). They sought refuge in the lord saying, ‘Protect us! Protect us!’ He (Viṣṇu), who is of the form of illusory delusion became the son of Śuddhodana. He deluded those demons. Those, who had abandoned the path laid down in the Vedas, became the Bauddhas, and from them others who had abandoned the Vedas.”
4. Jains witnessing the Shraddha invalidates it
📚 Kurma Purana 2.21.32-33 📚
“That Sraddha wherein the wicked Tamasikas such as old Sravakas (Buddhists), Jainas, knowers of Pancaratra, followers of Kapalika and Pasupata sects, atheists, and others like them eat food offered to gods, does not bestow excellent benefit here and hereafter.”
📚 Usana Samita 4.23-30📚
“The following are disqualified to be present at a Sraddha ceremony: The Sramanas (Bouddha ascetics); Nirgoodas, (a class of naked mendicants); those, who, know the doctrines of the Pancharatra; Jinass; the Kapalikas, the Pasupatas. If these and similar other heretics, wicked souls pervaded by the quality of Tammas, partake of the Havi, the Sraddha does not become successful, and it does not yield fruits in the next world.”
📚 Vayu Purana 2.16.24📚
“The naked and similar (apostates and non-Vedic sects) people should not see the Sraddha rite. This is the rule. Such Sraddhas as are seen by these, do not reach Pitrs or Pitamahas.”
📚 Kurma Purana 2.22.34-35📚
“The following shall be shunned and kept at a great distance from Sraddhas viz. one who is deficient in any limb, a fallen one, a leper, one with running sores, an atheist, a cock, a pig, and a dog. One shall avoid a loathsome fellow, an unclean fellow, the naked one, the intoxicated one, the rogue, a woman in her monthly course, the blue-garmented, the ochre-garmented and the heretic.”
📚 Brahmanda Purana 3.14.34📚
“The Nagnas (naked) and other persons must not see the well-arranged Sraddha rite. The Sraddha viewed by these do not reach the Pitrs or the Pitamahas (grandfathers).”