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In the Nandīsūtra, a Jain religious work, Chanakya is extolled for the success which he achieved as Finance Minister to Chandragupta.
231 VIDYABHUSANA, S. C. Buddhadeva. Calcutta, 1311 Säl. [1905, In Bengali].
Pp. 229 225. Conversation between Mahavira and Gosal Makhali Putta--Mahāvīra and Nirgrantha Nätha Putta are one and the same person.
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DUTT, R. C. Early Hindu Civilisalion, B.C. 2000 to 320. Calcutta, 1906. Pp. 381-390. History of Jainism,
233 DUTT, R. C. Later Hindu Civilisation, B.C. 320 to A.D. 800. Calcutta, 1906.
Pp. 226-227, 232. Jain Architecture, its special characteristics..
234 CROOKE WILLIAM. Things Indian. London, 1906.
270. Colossal images are common both to Buddhists and Jains. The largest Jain figure at Gwalior is 57 ft. high, while that at SravaņaBelgoļa in Mysore, the colossal statue of Gommatesvara, cut out of a single rock, is 60 ft.
Pp. 283-286. Vardhamana or Mahāvīra, born in about 599 B.C., the founder of Jainism-Absolute nudity was one of his chief rules-Difference between Jainism and Buddhism-Jainism remarkable for the magnificence and profuse ornamentation of its shrines-- Jain temples at Palitana, Girnar, Mt. Abũ, Parasnāth and Khajurāho-Two kinds of Jain temples bastis and bettus-Jainism not a separate religion, but rather a sect of Hinduism,
