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E. BURNOUF-Introduction a l' histoire du Buddhisme indien. Second edition.-Paris.
P. 263. Signification of the word 'arhat' to the Jains.
P. 279. Notes on the Jaina statues which are ordinarilly naked.
1879.
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E. THOMAS-The Early Faith of Asoka, (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Service, Vol. IX, Pp. 155-234).-London, 1877.
Importance of the discovery of Mathura for the history of the Jainism.
Opinion of COLEBROOKE according to which the Buddhism derived from the Jainism. Proofs in favour of this thesis, according to the Buddhistic documents.
List of the 24 Tirthankaras with their symbols and colours. The conclusions of STEVENSONS analogous to those of COLEBROOKE relating to the chronological reports of the Buddhism and Jainism,
Several other opinions or accounts, in particular that of the Chinese pilgrim Fa-Hien.
1055
Brahmanism and Jainism. The doctrine of the castes Asoka. The Brahmanism and Jainism. The doctrine of the castes Asoka. The there periods of his religious evolution. Chronological study of the edicts from this point of view. It is in the last period only, after the 27th year of his reign that Asoka was converted to the Buddhism. Researches on the term 'Devanampiya", which must have been a conventional title about, the Jains.
Study of the Indo-Scythian coins. Information about some archaeological relics of Mathura: statues and inscriptions. The Jaina religion was flourishing at Mathura in the period of Indo-Scythian King Kaniska.
Jain Education International
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MONIER, M. Williams-Modern India and the Indians. Third Edition. London,
Pp. 159-160. Jainism is now the only representative of Buddhistic ideas in India proper. Jain system earlier than Buddhism from an independent source.
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