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Notes :
1. Vilas A. Sangave, Jaina Community - A Social Survey, p. 409, Popular
Publication, Bombay, 1980. 2. Ibid. 3. See my book, Jainism in America, pp. 113-120, Jaina Humanities Press,
1996 for a close general review of the aspects of social, cultural and
religious understanding the Jains in North America hold. 4. Micheal Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey very clearly explain the conditions
under which the concept is designed. See p. 6 Assembly of Listeners
in Jain Society. Cambrig dge, Cambridge University, 1991. 5. Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind, pp. 182-186, NY,
Charles Scibners, 1969, provide excellent exposition and argument on such
criteria that one may further go in detail. 6. K.I. Koppedrayer, A Review of the Treatment of Jainism in Works on
World Religions in Jinamanjari, pp. 1-16, bi-annual journal of the Brahmi
Jain Society of USA and Canada, Vol. 9, No.1, April 1994. 7. J. P. Jain clearly gives a brief overview of these synenegic transformation
brought to bear on the Vedic theme and quite eloquently puts forth the view that Jainism along the way progressively developed in connection with the Vedic Brahmanism. See his works - Religion and Culture of the Jainas, Delhi, Bhartiya Jñanapith, 1977 and The Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India, Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1984. For details also see, Bhagchandra Jain, Jaina Logic, p.i., Madras, University of Madras, 1992.
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