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Pp. 2-3. History of Modhera. an ancient town in Gujarat-Progress and influence of Jainism in Gujarat-Story in the Dharmāranya -The vanishment of all sains from the territory,The Chaturvimśat Prabandha, by a Jain, Rājśekhara Sūri, account in it of the conversion of a king of Kanauj named Ano to Jainism-His stay under Jain teacher Siddhasena Sūri. Ano was a staunch Jain. Vanraj of the Chāvda dynasty owed a great deal to the Jains. Account in the Dharmāranya of the introduction of Jainism and subsequent dissensions among the residents of Modhera.
P. 9. Out of 100 Modh families in Bhopal about twenty follow the faith of the tirthankaras. A Jain maiden married into a Vaisnava family has no scruple in entering a Vaişņava temple, while a Vaişnava girl would readily pay her respects to the Jain Yatis and always visit the Upāśrayas. Jainism have retained its hold on the Modhs and most of them returned to the Brāhmaṇical fold. In Gujarat, hardly any Jains, while in Central India, the Jains are few in number.
P. 10. Jains offer balls to the manes at the Siddhvad in Ujjain. P. 11. A few Modh families in Bhopal are Jains.
374 ZACHARIAE. TH. Vertia ; eine Bezeichunng der Jainas. (Vienna Oriental Journal, xxiv, 1910, pp. 337-344). The article deals with Jaina notation, among others.
375 CHARPENTIER, J. The Leśyā theory of the Jainas and Ājīvikas. (Goteborg, 1910) (Festskrift tillegnad, K. F. Johanson pā hans 50-ārsdag, pp. 20-38).
The article is an exposition of the Leśyā-Theory as given by the Jain authors like Umāsvāti.
376 GUERINOT, A. Religion Jaina. (JA, 10th Ser. V. xv, 1910, pp. 377-378).
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