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परिशिष्ट नं० ७
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Dear Sir & Brother,
Jai Jianendra. I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th Inst. which only arrived this morning, and I am rejoiced to hear that the publishers of the High Roads etc. are willing to adopt my suggestions in their book. But I donot understand what authorities they want me to cite. There is only one point that might be deemed to stand in need of authoritative views. The rest are mere matters of faith and general knowledge. I shall deal with them Seriatim as far as I am able to do so in a hurry.
(1) That Mahavir Swami was not the founder of Jainism is now recognized by every scholar of note. See the Article in the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics on Jainism. See also the notes of the speech of Dr. Hermann Jacobi, the great German Orientalist, in the January number of the Jain Gazette, 1914. See also the authorities collected by me in the Practical Path (Appendix ). Also sen Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religion" by Forlong. The Historicity of Bhagwan Parasva Nath is not now generally questioned by learned
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