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wer to this, we shall say that the Jains were far from having only a confused idea of their creeds and doctrines previous to the redaction of their sacred books. How strictly they followed their doctrines could be easily imagined from the great number of persons who were considered by them as heretics and founders of new schisms, for differing from them in some comparatively unim. portant details of belief. In the Council of Valabhi held about 454 A. D., and in which Devarddhi presided, the redaction of the Jain Cannon or the Siddhanta took place. With regard to this redaction it is necessary to remember that Devarddhi only probably arranged the already existing Mss, in a canon, taking down from the mouth of learned theologians only such works of which Mss were not available' Devarddhi's edition of the Siddhanta is therefore as Jacobi puts it only a redaction of the sacred books which existed before his time in nearly the same form." Jacobi after comparing the oldest
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