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Vol. 2, pp. 289-296. Religious text of the Jains-Jain canon (Siddhānta)-Canonical Jain literature.
490 Jain Manuscript "Bhandars” at Patan. (MR, July, 1920).
P. 72. The importance of exploring these hitherto unnoticed Jain mss. libraries is emphasised in this short note.
491 NARIMAN, G. K. Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism. (From Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber), Bombay, 1920.
P. 199. Nirgranthas or Jains are religious sects of non-Buddhistic persuasion–They are the adversaries whom Aśvaghosha detests with greater virulence than Brahmans-There is a story in which King Kaniska is made to be enraged against the Jain rivals of the Buddhists --Inscriptions at Mathura show that the Jains were flourishing under the Indo-Scythian Kings.
Pp. 288-289. The Jain work Darśana Sara contains a virulent attack on the Buddhists charging them not only with consumption of animal food but also of spirituous liquor.
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GRIERSON, GEORGE A. Paišāchī in the Prākrita-Kalpataru. (IA, xlix, 1920, p. 114).
Hemachandra in his grammar describes Paisachi and two varieties of Chūlikä-paiśächika.
493 NARASIMHACHAR, R. The Karnataka Country and Language. (QJMS, X, 1920, pp. 248-258).
P. 252. Antiquity of the Kannada language-According to the Jain tradition Brāmhi, the daughter of Riṣabhadeva, the first Tīrthankara, invented eighteen alphabets including, among others, Kannada. An inscription of about the gth century found in a Jain temple in the
