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Vol. i, p. 315. The Jains, the Buddhist seceders, take exactly the same view of caste as their speculative progenitors. Their Yatis or Jatis continually assail caste by such arguments as we find in the l'ajrn śüchi of Aśva Ghosa.
Vol. I, p. 441. Saråka.
Vol. ii, pp. 86-87. Chola dynasty-Jain inscriptions at Ellora (Virola) - Depression of Jainism.
Vol. ii, p. 11. Osvāls, a class of mercantile Jains, and are called Osvāl Brahmanas.
336 EDKINS, JOSEPH. Chinese Buddhism. London, 1880.
P. 31. The ruins of the city of Rājagriha visited by the Jains at a spot sixteen miles south west of Behar.
Pp. 156-158. Dr. Hamilton says, speaking of the Srāvakas or Jains, a still existing Buddhist sect in India, that they worship twentyfour great teachers, who are called either Avatāras or Tirthankaras.
The series of twenty four patriarchs may be assumed to be the same as the Jain twenty-four patriarchs.
Rhode supposes the Jains to be descendants of the asuras and rakshas.
Bodhidharma headed a new school in Southern India, and was heretical as viewed from the Jains' standpoint.
337 TIELE, C. P. Outlines of the History of Religion to the Spread of the Universal Religions. (Translated from the Dutch by J. Estlin Carpenter). Third Edition. London, 1884. Pp. 140-142. The Jains : Characteristic features of their religion.
338 NESFIELD, JOHN C. Brief view of the caste system of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Allahabad, 1885.
