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HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & BIOGRAPHY
supremacy of Jainism-Ascendancy of Saivism, the result. Jainism by no means extinct among Kurumbás.
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P. 245. Success of a Jain priest to convert a great number of the Kurumbas to Jainism-Erection of a Jain basti by the king of PulalDestruction of Jain sculptures found in rice-fields-Many Kurumbas resemble in their present manners and customs e.g., marriage ceremonies, the Jains of former times.
P. 248. Existence of a Jain basti dedicated to Aditirthankara in the village Pulal.
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STRACHEY, JOHN. India. London, 1894.
P. 245. Jain doctrines, similar to the more orthodox forms of Buddhism-a tendency for Jainism to become virtually a sect of Brahmanism. "In the north and west of India the Jains are still a cultivated class, mostly engaged in commerce, whilst in the south they are, as a rule, agriculturists."
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RATZEL, FRIEDRICH. The History of Mankind. (Tr. from the Second German Edition by A. J. Butler). Vol. 3. London, 1898.
P. 524. The religion of the Jains is a development from Brahmanism resembling the old Buddhism, but tending more to the worship of saints.
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DEY, NUNDO LAL. The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval India. Calcutta, 1899.
PART 1.
ANCIENT NAMES & MODERN NAMES OR SITUATION : Ayodhya. Oudh. Birthplace of Adinatha, a Jain tirthankara. Alavi. Airwa. Alabhi of the Jains, from which Mahāvīra made his missionary peregrinations.
Chandragiri. Near Belgola, sacred to the Jains,
