Jain is an ancient Indian religion. Jainism is based on ahimsa (non-violence). being non-violent is the highest religious duty. According to Jainism for human being violence against any creature is considered unnecessary.
The Concept of veganism came in the 20th century, the principle of veganism also based on non-violence and goal of veganism is to eliminate all unnecessary violence by human beings.
What Jainism had told thousands of years ago veganism is based on the same principle.
Here in the video @xyzashu has explained in a beautiful way about the relation between the principle of Jainism and veganism.
If you do not understand Hindi, there is a translation of the script provided in the description.
