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[ 58 ) do not mean earth, water and the like, but earthembodied souls, water-embodied souls, etc. It is not the Jaina view that all water,earth etc. are living objects, but that there are certain souls that have their organism composed of one element, earth, water and the like. This is simple enough.
(8) again is not one that requires the authority of a Jacobi or Buhler to be established. It is a great pity that litigation has arisen in the past and is also going on now between the two communities in certain places with respect to the rights and modes of worship, but the authors ought to know that it is merely a legal dispute and no more. The writer of this note is a Digambara Jain and is writing to a Swetambara Samaj through its Hon. Secretary who is himself a Swetambara Jain. Is not this fatal to the theory oi our authors ? Last year when I was conducting the Sikherji case at Ranchi, I frequently called upon the Swetambari party and they returned my visits in quite a friendly spirit. At the close of the case I gave a small party also which was responded to cheerfully by those of the Swetambris who were able to come, and in the end we paid a joint visit to the local institutions there.
(9) That is the authority of the authors, for the
