Kesari the Flying Thief

Jain monks took a keen interest in the moral and spiritual uplift of the common people. To express their philosophical concepts in brief statements, and to make them intelligible and interesting to the layman, these monks used the medium of stories. Thousands of such didactic stories in Sanskrit and Prakrit have come down to us.Kesari the Flying Thief and Jinadatta have been retold from the Vardhaman-desana while Vasudeva was taken from the Kathakosha.