Jaina Bibliography Part 2

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Memories sur les contress occidentales. par Hiouen-Thsang, traduits du chinois par Stanislas Julien. 2. Volumes. Paris, 1857-1858.
In some passages, Hiouen-Thsang speaks of the heretic monks who go naked, that is to say of the Jains. These passages are the following:
Volume I
Pages 41. In the realm of Kapisa, one finds some heretics who go naked.
69. Among the heretics of India, there are some who have no clothes at all and remain entirely naked.
163-164. At 40 or 50 leagues to the south-east of Simhapura (Panjab) "one sees the place where the founder of the heretic sect who wears some white clothes... commenced to explain the law. Today, one sees there an inscription. Near this place, one has constructed a temple..." Hiouen-Thsang describes afterwards some customs of the Jains.
354. In the realm of Vārānāsi, some heretics "preserve a tuft of hairs on the top of the head, go naked and have not any kind of dress".
384. The heretics who go naked "have a large crowd of partisans at Vaiśāli."
Volume II
27. Many of the naked heretics inhabit the Mount Vipula and given themselves up to the most hard austerities.
42. A naked heretic resided in the neighbourhood of Rājagriha who excelled in the art of divination. At last Hiouen-Thsang gives the description of numerous naked heretics in the following realms :
75. Pundravardhana ; 82. Samatata; 93. Kalinga ; 116. Culya. 119. Drāvida. 121. Malakūta.