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RELIGIOUS SECTS
Major Tod', furnish many interesting particulars relative to the doctrines and past or present condition of the Jains. Some valuable illustration of the latter subject is to be found in the Calcutta Quarterly Magazine?: some historical notices obtained from the inscriptions at Abú occur in the last volume of our Researches, whilst a novel and rather comprehensive view of Jain literature is contained in the Catalogue of Manuscripts collected by the late Colonel MACKENZIE'.
From this latter authority we learn that the literature peculiar to Jainas comprises a number of works peculiar to the sect, the composition of their own writers, and on a variety of subjects". They have a
On the Philosophy of the Hindus, Part V, by Mr. COLEBROOKE, Vol. I [Essays, London, 1858, 243 ff. 280 fl.]. On the Srávaks, or Jains, by Major DELAMAIN, Vol. I, 418. On Inscriptions in Jain Temples, in Behár, by Mr. COLEBROOKE, Dr. HAMILTON, and Colonel FRANKLIN, Vol. I, 520. On the Srávaks, or Jains, by Dr. HAMILTON, Vol. I, 531. On the Religious Establishments in Mewar, by Major Ton, Vol. II, 270.
? Particularly in the Journal of a Native Traveller, from Calcutta and back again through Behár. The traveller was a learned Jain, in the service of Colonel MACKENZIE. There is also au interesting account of a visit to the temple of ParśVANÁTH, at Samet Sikhar.
3 Vol. I, page 144, &c 4 The List comprises 44 Works:
Puranas, .................. 7 Charitras and Legends, .... Ritual, Prayers, &c.. ..... Medicine, ............. Grammar, .................
