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The sages have prescribed in the first Vrata for a Grahastha one and a quarter Biswa (out of 20 Biswas) Daya (Mercy) and not more. NOTE No. 49.
CHARACTER.
In practical life Jainism makes of its laity earnest men who exhibit a stronger trait of resignation than other Indians and excel in an exceptional willingness to sacrifice anything for their religion. It makes them also fanatics for the protection of animal life. Wherever they gain influence, there is an end of bloody sacrifices and of slaughtering and killing the larger animals.
P. 17 The Indian Sect of the Jains.
NOTE NO. 50.
Please see pp. XXIII & XXIV Introduction to Part II "The Gaina Sutras" by Hermann Jacobi.
NOTE No. 51.
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Please see note 49.
Norr No. 52.
"It is well established that king Kima, Sundara, or Nedumaran Pandya, who had been brought up as a Jain and was married to a Chola princess, was converted about the middle of the seventh century, by his consort and the famous. Saint Tirujna-nasambandar to the faith of Siva
