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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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R. C. MAJUMDAR--Ancient India. Banares, 1952.
Pp. 136-38. Kalinga-- detailed biography of king Khāravela.
Pp. 176-180. Jainism: Pārsva had a real existence; his life; died eighth century B.C.; Mahāvīra born 540 B.C.; his life; died 468 B.C.; the Jain doctrine; resemblance and contrast between Buddhism and Jainism; history of Jainism; the great schism.
P. 229. Ananda a Jain laity possessed a treasure of four crore measures of gold and forty thousand heads of cattle.
P. 393. Both Mārasimha and Indra (10th century AD.) became Jaina monks.
P. 399. According to one tradition Bijjalla (Kalachuri) a patron of the Jainas was killed by his minister Basava, the founder of the Lingayat sect; acceeding to another Bijjala abdicated the throne in 1168 A.D. in favour of his son Someśvara.
P. 455. Religion-while numerous inscriptions of the pre-Gupta period, refer to non-Brahmanical religious sects like Buddhists and Jainas, the great major. ity of the inscriptions of the Gupta period refer to Brahmanical religion.
P. 457. Buddhists and Jains doctrine of ahimsā or obstention from the slaughter of animals made such a profound impression, that even today the high class Hindus of the greater part of India are strict vegetarians.
P. 458. Jainism--the early Chalukyas and the Rashtrakūtas, as well as the Gangas and Kadambas, patronised the Jaina religion, and it made great progress in the South during their rule; Jainism began to decline in South India from the 7th century A.D. owing to the influence of Saiva and Vaishnavas saints The Hoysalas, too, were Jainas; the Cholas and the Pandyas were bigoted Saivas and persecuted the Jainas. Sundara Pāndya impaled 8,009 Jainas-pictures on the walls of the great temple at Madura represent their torture. Jainas, unlike Buddhists, not extinct in the land of their birth.
P. 463. Vaishnavism--at first the total number of Avatāras was four or six, but later even Rishabha, the first Tirthankara of the Jinas came to be looked upon as Avatāra of Vishnu.
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