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Vol. 3. P. 167. At Kathiawad the largest and most famous groups of Śrāvaka or Jain temple, the special zeal of the Jains for building temples, their greatest pride in decorating temples, the Jains possess more religious edifices than the other Hindus.
Vol. 3. Pp. 407-408. Mahāvīra's followers at one time prevailed in Southern India-Jain works still the most remarkable in Dravidian literature-greatest respect for all living things, from the venomous snake to the smallest animalcule, the "four duties” of the Jains, their spirit of fellowship-some of their sanctuaries, such as those of Palitana, Mt. Abu, Junagarh, Pārasnath, are amongst the most magnificent in the world.
225 FORREST, G. W. Cities of India. Westminster, 1903.
Pp. 65-66. Architectural style of the Jains copied by the Sultans of Ahmedabad.
Mahāvīra, with his eleven chief disciples, may be regarded as the first open seceders from Brāhmanism-Life of Mahavira.
ism and Buddhism were the two heretical sects of importance agitating the region about Benares at the same time.
Jainism never became a dominant creed.
To the Peases and Barclays of Western India we owe the costly Jain temples.
Pp. 89-94. Jain shrines on Mt. Abu the highest ideals of pure Hindu Architecture. Jain aim of victory over desires and Jaina creed that “Patience is the highest good”. Description of Jain temples.
226 Rhys Davids, T. W. Buddhist India. Second Impression. London, 1903.
P. 143. Jains an organised community all through the history of India from before the rise of Buddhism down to the present time.
P. 163. The Buddhist and Jain records about the philosophic ideas current at the time of the Buddha and the Mahāvira,
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