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P. 28. Mention of 7 manuscripts on Jain religion in R. L. Mitra's "Notices”.
Pp. 64-68, 80, 87. Mention of several Jain works and their authors, etc. :
Pp. 83-84, 100-104, 116-119, 125-134. References to Jain works etc., made in connection with Bühler's search for Sanskrit manuscripts during 1871-72, 1872-73, 1873-74, 1874-75.
Pp. 91-99, 108-113, 137. A classified list of Jain works.
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Cust, ROBERT NEEDHAM. Linguistic and Oriental Essays, written from the year 1846 to 1876. London, 1880.
P. 121. The Jains appear to have had their career of supremacy in Southern India, but they have dwindled away to an inconsiderable sect; they admit caste, and if they abandon their heresy, can be admitted back into full privileges, from which they are only partially excluded. They carry their respect to animal life to very extravagant lengths.
P. 134. The Jain religion is an admixture of Buddhist and Brāhmaņical doctrines.
P. 425. Dr. Eggeling's exhibition of some Jain palm-leaves dating from the twelfth to the fourteenth century A.D., the oldest date that can safely be assigned to any Indian manuscript.
461 Hernle, A. F. RUDOLF. A Sketch of the History of Prakrit Philosophy. (CR, lxxi, Art. 7., 1880, pp. 311-332).
P. 312. The last Prākrit Grammarian is the great Jain monk, Hemachandra, who wrote his grammar at the instance of the Chalukya king Siddha Rāja (who reigned in Gujarat from 1094-1143 A.D.).
The two other Prākrit grammarians Trivikrama and Subha Chandra belonged to the Jain community.
P. 315. Books of the Jains contain not only speciments of Prakrit, but are wholly written in that language.
