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of a religious community. Many strove to attain this object although separated from one another. It is now recognisable, though preliminarily in one point only, that the religious history of India from the fifth century B.C. to the eighth or ninth A.D. was not made up of the fight between Brahmanism and Buddhism alone. This conclusion allows us, lastly, to hope that the thorough investigation of the oldest writings of the Jainas and their relations with Buddhism on the one hand and with Brahamanism on the other will afford many important ways of access to a more exact knowledge concerning the religious ideas which prevailed in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. and to the establishment of the boundaries of originality between the differenet systems.
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the English translation of Uber die indische secte der Jainas by T. Burgess.
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