Capability approach to development through Jain doctrines

Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara of Jainism is highly celebrated figure in the world for his ideas that revolutionized world. He was a realist thinker who tried hard to spread humanitarian values, human-centric teachings centred on making one’s life viable himself and others. This paper an attempt present brief one aspect Mahavira’s model individual well-being comparing it with ‘Capability-approach’ by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen which path-breaking reform field economics. briefly elaborates both approaches, then draw parallel between them holding up particular dimensions like views poverty, freedom, development etc. It also presents how Mahavira went step ahead reaching way attain desired end as visualised solved major loophole Sen’s approach.