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Rajsekhara Suri, account in it of the conversion of a king of Kanauj named Ano to Jainism His stay under Jain teacher Siddhasena, Suri. Ano was a staunch Jain. Vanraj of the Chävda dynasty owed a great deal to the Jains. Account in the Dharmaranya of the introduction of Jainism and subsequent dissensions the residents of Modhera.
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P. 9. Out of 100 Modh families in Bhopal about twenty follow the faith of the Tirthankaras. A Jain maiden married into a Vaisnava family has no scruple in entering a Vaisnava temple, while a Vaisnava girl would readily pay her respects to the Jain Yatis and always visit the Upairayas. Jainism has retained its hold on the Mods and most of them returned to Brahmanical fold. In Gujarat, hardly any Jains, while in Central India, the Jains are few in number.
P. 10. Jains offer balls to the manes at the Siddhvad in Ujjain.
P. 11. A few Modh families in Bhopal are Jains.
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R. V. RUSSELL and HIRA LAL-The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. 4 vols. London, 1916.
Vol. 1, Pp. 219-231. Jain Jain religion (1) Numbers and distribution, (2) the Jain religion; its connection with Buddhism, (3) the Jain tenets; the Tirthankaras, (4) the transmigration of souls, (5) strict rules against taking life, (6) Jain sects, (7) Jain ascetics, (8) Jain sub-castes of Banias, (9) rules and customs of the laity, (10) connection with Hinduism, (11) temples and car festival, (12) images of the Tirthankaras, (13) religious observances, (14) tenderness for animal life, (15) social condition of the Jains.
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L. H. GRAY and G. F. MOORE-The Mythology of all races.
Vol. VI. Pp. 220-29. Mythology of the Jains.
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Karan MAHENDRANATH-The cultivating Pods, 1919.
In the introduction Prof. P. MITRA has written-it is possible that the Pods of Bengal have suffered the most being originally Jains.
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