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ahiṃsā
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ahiṃsā (Skt., non-harming, non-violence ). Moral principle of non-violence and respect for life found in many strands of Indian religion but particularly emphasized in the
śramaṇa schools such as
Jainism and
Buddhism. It was on the basis of ahiṃsā that the heterodox schools opposed the practice of
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