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V. A. SMITH-The early history of India.–Oxford, 1904.
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8. The Jaina books contains some historical information of considerable value.
24. Short review on Mahāvira, born at Vaiśāli and died at Pawa.
27-28. Mahāvīra preached the Jainism in Magadha during the reign of Bimbisara.
39-40. Mahāvira and Gautama Buddha were contemporaries. They both died in the reign of Ajätasatru, Mahāvīra, few years before the Buddha. Discussion on the date of the death of Mahāvīra; cf. particularly the note I of the page 40.
41. Chronological table in which the death of Mahāvīra is referred to the year about 490 B.C., and that of the Buddha to the year 487.
145, 148, 158.--The Ajivikas presented close analogies with the Jains.
163, N. 2. The Hospital for animals, called "Banyan" at Surat was the common work of the Jains and of the Vişnuites.
176, N. 2. Khāravela, king of Orissa towards 157 before the Christian era, was a Jaina prince, but had the greatest toleration in respect of other religions.
264. The Jaina cult in the beginning of the Christian era. Mathura was one of its principal centres.
291. The Jains cult in the 7th century is specially flourishing at Vaiśāli and in the East Bengal.
326-328. During the two centuries of reign of the ancient dynasty of the Calukyas of Vātāpi, the Jainism made considerable progress; he was particularly popular in the southern Marathā. Amoghavarşa Ist (815-877 A.D.) was a very generous king with respect to the Jainas, specially with respect to the Digambaras, whose coinmunity made a rapid extension in the 9th and 10th centuries, with some pontiffs such as Jinasena and Guņabhadra.
330-331. Decline of the Chālukya dynasty (1156-1190 A.D.). Reign of Bijjala (Kalacuri), who professed the Jaina religion. Formation of the sect of the Lingāyats who thwarted in a large measure the scope of the Jainism.
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