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present form by the Third Valabhi Council. Also the church history of the Jainas had been compiled by the time of the Third Valabhi Convention. The church construction and community organization were thus virtually completed during this final canonical stage. The Jainas have, thus taking nearly 1,000 years, accomplished their church construction equipped with their canonical literature typical of the Jaina doctrinal system of jiva-ajiva.
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All the then rival schools had likewise entered the age of maturity of their doctrinal tenets and the completion of their church construction, by undergoing similar stages of development. And with the long standing peace and socioeconomic stability in underpinning cultural florescence in the Gupta age, their daily life was becoming more and more ceremonial and ritualistic, with the Jainas being no exception. In our hasty survey above, we could not enter into a comparative study of the thought development of the Jainas in relation to that of the other systems of thought based on a study of the socio-cultural background in these respective stages. This aspect is important in research in this direction, and remains to be completed in the future.
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