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P. 38. Kumărapăla's conversion to Jainism offers the best possible commentary on the history of Asoka.
P. 41. Kankali Tilā, Mathura, a Buddhist as well as a sain site.
P. 61. Buddhism and Jainism both originally mere sects of Hinduism. Asoka's honour in various ways to Jains and Brahmanical Hindus as well as to Buddhists.
P. 62. Asoka's expenditure in hewing out of hard gneiss spacious cave-dwellings for the Ajivika naked ascetics-His liberal benefactions on the Jains and Brāhmaṇas.
P. 70. The Tain literary tradition of Western India about grandson of Asoka, named Samprati, who is represented as an eminent patron of Jainism, in fact a Jain Asoka.
PP. 72-74. Chronology of the Maurva period.
P. 210. Emplovment of Asoka's censors among the Bhāhmaṇas and Jains.
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MAJUMDAR, AKSHOY KUMAR. The Hindu History, B.C. 3,000 to 12,000 A.D. Second Edition. Dacca, 1920.
Book II, Chapter IIA: India in Vedic Age till 2500 B.C..
Rise of Jainism-Jainism has been sometimes called Syād-bāda -Jainism is still a living religion-Jains accept the caste system-Th agree with the Buddhists in denying the existence or at least the activity and providence of God.
298 MAJUMDAR, RAMES CHANDRA. The Kushan Chronology. Pt.n. (JDL, i, 1920, pp. 65-112).
P. 104. The business habit of the Jain merchants is not peculiar to the Kusan period alone-Godāsa's Mathura Inscription belongs to the Jain religion.
299 SASTRI, HARAPRASAD. Two Eternal Cities in the Province of Bihar and Orissa. (JBORS, vi 1920, pp. 23-39).
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