Sarvodaya: Difference between revisions

'''Sarvodaya''' is a Sanskrit term meaning 'universal uplift' or 'progress of all'. The term was used by [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] as the title of his 1908 translation of [[John Ruskin|John Ruskin's]] tract on political economy, ''[[Unto This Last]]'', and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy.<ref>[[Joan Bondurant|Bondurant, Joan]]. ''Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict.'' (Princeton, 1958) p 156.</ref> Later Gandhians, like the Indian [[nonviolence]] activist [[Vinoba Bhave]], embraced the term as a name for the social movement in post-independence [[India]] which strove to ensure that self-determination and equality reached all strata of Indian society. [[Samantabhadra (Jain monk)|Samantabhadra]], an illustrious [[Digambara monk]], as early as the 2nd century A.D., called the ''tīrtha'' of ''Mahāvīra'' (24th [[Tirthankara]]) by the name ''sarvodaya''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upadhye|first=Dr. A. N.|author-link=A.N. Upadhye|title=Mahavira His Times and His philosophy of life|date=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHfzERhGUjQC|publisher=Bharatiya Jnanpith|p=54}}</ref>