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1950, p.60. (i) The concept of the Parsi mode of disposal of the dead lies in the ideal of maintaining the purity of the Earth, Fire, Air and Waler. Vide Religion of Good Life, by Sir Rustum Masani, London, 1954, pp.145-151. (ii) Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, under Death and Disposal of the Dead, enumcrates the various modes of disposing the human corpsc prevailing among the different communities and races of the world. Amongst those, the mode of 'sub-aerial deposit quite corresponds to the onc under our discussion. There also runs a remark : "To leave the body on the ground was probably the carliest, as it is the simplest and most savage form of disposal of the dead”. Except the Yspaniya- tantra, mentioned by Haribhadra (c. 700-,70 A.D.), there is hardly known any independent literature of the Yāpaniyas. Vide History of Jaina Monachism, by Dr.S.B.Deo, Poona, 1956, p.95. Op.cit., pp.56-73 Jainism in South India, Sholapur, 1957, pp.97-113, pp. 164-170. etc. (i) Yapanīya Samgha: A Jaina Sect, Journal of Bombay University, Arts and Law, Vol. 1.6. (ii) On the meaning of Yapaniya, Srikanthikā, Mysore, 1973. (iii) More light on the Yapanīya Samgha, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol.LX. This story in each Kathakosa is based on gahā No.1544 in the Mūlārādhanā. Simghi Jaina Granthamala, No.17, Bombay, 1943. Prākrit Text Society, Ahmedabad, 1969. Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Delhi, 1974. Jaina Mitra Kāryalaya, Bombay, V.S.2439-2442.
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