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life when many conflicting dogmas were adumbrated without leading to certitude. The Syadvāda stands out as an intellectual idea of that harmony among men which is based upon mutual understanding. In literature it has served as a basis of encyclopædic knowledge in which many of his votaries have excelled.
Jainism spread all over India since Mahavira's demise. The Chronicles of Ceylon attest that it spread also in Ceylon The places hallowed by the dust of his feet became sacred as places of pilgrimage to the millions of his votaries. Those very places became sites of the Jain shrines, the architecture, sculpture, and painting of which are still the most precious objects of admiration to all.
