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AIYANGAR, S. KRISHNASWAMI. Social Legislation under Hindu Governments. (QJMS, vi, 1916, pp. 47-57).
Pp. 51-52. Under Bukka (A.D. 1336-1376), the founder of Vijayanagar Empire, came up a dispute between the Jains and the Vaisnavas in a Vaisnava centre, in the State of Mysore. It was decreed that the five big drums and the Kalas will continue to be used. If to the Jain Darśana any injury on the part of the Vaisnava should arise, it will be protected in the same manner as if injury to the Vaisnavas had arisen. By consent of both the Vaisnavas and the Jains, the duty of protection of the Jains was entrusted to the particular Tātāchārya (leading Vaisnava) of Tripati.
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ENTHOVEN, R. E. Folklore of Guzarat. (IA, xlvi, 1917, Suppl., pp. 125-135, See No. 381).
P. 132. At the time of admitting a Jain to the ascetic order of the religion, the hairs of his head are pulled out one by one until the head is completely bald.
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BLOOMFIELD, MAURICE. On Recurring Psychic Motifs in Hindu Fiction and the Laugh and Cry Motif. (JAOS, xxxvi, pp. 54-89).
Pp. 54-55. Jain's performances of the type of Devendra's stories and the commentaries (churni and tikā) to the Avaśyaka literature.
Comment on the critical habits of the charitas or prabandhas of the Jains: They illustrate 'conspiciously the Hindu inability to discriminate between fact and fancy-They weave into their narrative once more the whole apparatus of Hindu fiction-Hemachandra's Trişaşṭiśalākă-puruşa Charita gives an idea of the extent of this type of literature-Not very different and scarcely less numerous are the
