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જૈન ધર્મ સંબધે નામદાર બ્રીટીશ સરકારનો અનુભવ. ૨૩ ascetics of the south, who are probably the older. The literatures of the two factions are quite distict, the older sacrud books, the angas and purvas being possessed only by the Swetambaras. ... The first Jain council, held at Pataliputra about 310 B. C., is said to have framed the Jain canon, and from this time was laid the foundation of the schism, which did not finally occur till Carly in the first century A. D. During the inediaeval perid, Jainism secured much political influence. It became the state religion of the Chalukya princes of Gujarat and Marwar, and of the kings of the Coromandel Coast. Many of its adherents held office as prime ministers in the Courts of Western, Central, and Southern India and to this time are due the splendid series of Jain temples, such as those on Mount Abu and Girnar. On the Muhammadan conquest many of the stately Jain shrines were demolished and their carved pillars utilized in building great mosques, such as that Hear. the Kutb Minar of Delhi at Ajmer and Ahmedabad. Jainism is the only one of the early monastie
orders which has survived te Causes of the survival of Jainism. the present day in India. It
escaped the disasters which overcome Buddhism, partly because its severance from Brahmanism was never so complete; partly because it never adopted an active missionary policy, but preferred to practise its peculiar rites in & quiet unobstrusive fashion. But the main reason is that unlikBuddhism, it admitted to its Sangha,
