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CHITTARANJAN PAL: POSITION OF THE JAINAS IN BENGAL
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After a brief survey of the socio-religious and political scenerio of Bengal of the days of mātsyanyāya, it is to be concluded that not all the ruined and deserted monasteries of the country on the bank of the Ganges” were of Buddhist affiliation as referred to by Arya Mañjusri-müla-kalpa. Some of those monasteries that were deserted and were in ruins during the mātsyanyāya period were, no doubt, Nirgrantha or Jaina in origin.
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