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Tenets of Jaina religion-Its mythology and the ethical background.
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JHAVERI, M. L. The first principles of Jain Philosophy. With an introduction by L. D. Barnett. (Vira Samvat, 2436). London, 1910.
The work contains a discussion in outline of the main tenets of Jain philosophy.
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STEVENSON, Mrs. S. Notes in modern Jainism : with special reference to the Svetāmbara, Digambara and Sthānakavāsi sects. Oxford, 1910.
The distinctive characteristics of the three sects have been discussed with reference to modern practices.
379 SUBRAHMANYA Aivar, K. V. Origin and decline of Buddhism and Jainism in Southern India. (IA, xl, 1911, pp. 209218).
Buddhism known to the Pandya country a few centuries prior to Asoka-In the ist century A.D. it gradually spread throughout Southern India-Jainism also dated back to the same period-Jains put a permanent barrier to the growth of Buddhism in the 7th and 8th cent.The rise of the Saiva saints effected removal from Southern India of the two religions in the course of a few years after the gth century A.D.
Jainism continued for three more centuries in Mysore and was stamped-out by the Lingayet rising and the advent of Rāmānuja in the 12th century A.D. (See No. 390).
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LA VALLEE POUSSIN, LOUIS DE. Une Stance Jain et Bouddhique. {One stanza of Jainism and Buddhism] (JA, 1oth Ser. xvii, 1911, pp. 323-325).
