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Jainism. When the present war was over, public attention would no doubt be turned to the treatment of horses, which he believed had suffered more than the men. Another subject of interest was the correspondence between the Jain architecture and English Gotbic.
Sir Williain Rattigan said that there was one part of the lecture which he thought might have been a good deal amplified, to which Sir Lepel Griffin had referred, namely, how far Buddbism was indebted to Jainism for its general precepts. He could bear testimony to what had been said of the character of the men who professed the Jain religion. They were of a very estimable character, men of high principles, keeping aloof from all other agitations which led to nothing but embroiloient with other communities.
Sir Roland Wilson had no special acquaintance with the Jains, beyond having once visited their very beautiful temple at Ahmedabad, where what struck him most was in the first place that, as in tha Mahommedan mosque, he was expected to take his boots off before entering, but that, as was not the case in the mosque, he was provided instead with a pair of slippers, and next that he there saw wbat he bad not expected to see, priestesses taking an important part in the prayers. Pending the answer of the lecturer to the very interest. ing question put by Sir Lepel Griffin and others, as to the relations between Jainisin and Buddhism, be thought he might assume that in those respects, which
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