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P. 199. Nirgranthas or Jains are religious sects of non-Buddhistic persuasionThey are the adversaries whom Ašvaghosha detests with greater virulence than Brahmans - There is a story in which king Kaniska is made to be enraged against the Jain rivals of the Buddhist. Inscriptions at Mathura show that the Jains were flourishing under the Indo-Scythian kings.
Pp. 288-289. The Jain work Darśana Sāra contains a virulent attack on the Buddhists charging them not only with consumption of animal food but also of spirituous liquor.
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Dinesh Chandra Sen- The Bengali Rāmāyaṇas. Calcutta, 1920.
Pp. 27-31. Jain Rāmāyaṇa of Hemachandra Acharya (1082-1172)—its characteristics-elevated notion about the Rakşasas and monkey, Rāvana's character depicted as noble and grand ; Rāma is introduced only in later chapters.
P. 38. Hemachandra's Rāmāyana proves that the story of Rāma in the Southern works was a later engraftment on Dravidian legends about Rākșasas and monkeys.
Pp. 53-4. Forecast of the birth of Hanumana, the Ape god, and the stories about the banishment of his mother Añjanā for a moral flaw, as given in the Jain Rāmāyaṇa.
Pp. 204-212. Influence of Jain Ramāyaṇa on Bengali poems, various episodes, e.g. Lakshmana's love-making, Sita's drawing of Rāvana's picture, etc. incorporated into Bengali from the Jain source.
Bengal once a great Jaina centre-twenty-three Tirthankaras attained Siddhi in Samet-sekhara (Pareshnáth Hills, Hazaribagh)-Sreyansganath, and Väsupūjya, Tirthankaras, born in Bengal-Mahävira preached in Rāda Desha (Western Bengal)---statutes of Tirthankaras discovered in Bikrampur and other parts of Bengal.
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J. N. FARQUHAR- An outline of the Religious Literature of India. London, etc. 1920.
Transmigration and Release: Y to 200 B.C. iv (D). The
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