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The Epics and the Jaina Purāņas
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prabha Sür.11 In fact, the work in question owes much to the amalgamation of the materials derived mostly from these works.
These are the hitherto known Jaina Puranas which are the representative works of the faith. Naturally, we have based our investigation pre-eminently on these sources the results of which have been set forth in the preceding and the following pages.
114 Comp PC. 155, 185, 187, 192, 198 and SPP, 7, 82, 96, 97 and 99.