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A. WEBER-Zur indischen Religions geschichte,
Stuttgart, 1899.
This little volume contains a brief review on the Jainism in which there is discussion on the following points : Origin of the Jainism. Its period in comparison with the Buddhism.--The Digambaras and the Svetāmbaras. The Digam. baras must be more ancient : they are the Gymnosophists.-The canonical and secular literature of the Jains..
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R. HOERNLE-Jainism aud Buddhism. (Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1898, Pp. 39-55-Calcutta, 1899.
The major part of this memoir (Pp. 39-53) is devoted to the Jainism deals with the following points :
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Antiquity of the Jainism.
Review of the most recent works on this religion. Life of Mahāvīra : its resemblances with Gosāla and with Pärasanātha.
Religious state of India at the advent of the Buddhism and of the Jainism. These two orders were the result not of a religious reformation, but of a protest against that which was exclusive in the Brahmanism.
Essential differences between the Buddhism and the Jainism.
Concise history of the Jainism.-Origin of the Svetambaras and of the Digambaras. The council of Pāțaliputra. Progressive extension of the Jainism. The council of Valabhi and the fixation of the canon. The inscriptions of Mathura. The Jaina sects at the commencement of the Christian era.
[The same study is found also in the Calcutta Vol. CVI (1898), Pp. 374-337. It has been further summed up in the Journal of the Mahabodhi Society, Vol. VII. (1898) Pp. 22-23].
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C. Von Orelli-Allgemeine Religions geschichte.--Bonn, 1899. Pp. 493-498. The Jainism.
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