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MODERN JAINISM.
or ford maker who has crossed the troubled river of constant births or transmigration (Saṁsāra (HIR] ) to the haven of Liberation; Pārs'va is the twenty-third, and behind him stretch the other Tirthankara, whose length of life and height of stature grow ever greater and greater as they recede further and further into the mists of tradition. We shall return to them later when we are discussing Jaina beliefs.
