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Colebrooke speaks of the Prakrit and Pali, the languages of the Jains and the Buddhas.
In 1847 was published the first Jain work, Kalpa Sūtra, by Dr. J. Stevenson of Bombay.
P. 317. Hemachandra wrote his grammar about the middle of the 12th cent. A.D. Grammar of the Jain Prakrit by E. Müller came out' in 1876.
462 WEBER, ALBRECHT. The History of Indian Literature. (Translated from the second German edition by John Mann and Theodor Zachariae). Second Edition. London, 1882.
P. 244 n. Development of the atomic theory among the Jains.
Pp. 296-297 n. The sect of the Jains is to be regarded as one of the schismatic sects that branched off from Buddhism in the first century of its existence.
Origin of the Jain sect. The sacred texts of the Jains are styled Angas.
The Jains have great significance in connection with the Sanskrit literature.
463 Cust, ROBERT NEEDHAM. Linguistic and Oriental Essays written from the year 1847 to 1887. Second series. London, 1887.
Pp. 67-68. The Jains have played a great part in the history of India, and left an enormous literature behind them. Rhys Davids is of opinion, that the few Buddhists who were left in India at the Mahomedan conquest of Kashmir, in the twelfth century, preserved an ignoble existence by joining the Jain sect, and by adopting the principal tenets as caste and ceremonial observations of the antecedent Hindu creeds-One of the chief leatures of the Jain religion is their extreme respect for animal life.
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Grierson, GEORGE ABRAHAM. The Languages of India. Calcutta, 1903.
