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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
The seven logical relations. Controversy of the Vedāntists against the Jains,
Vol. II ; Pp. 191-224. Observations on the Sect of Jains. (Article original : Asiatic Researckes, vol. IX., Pp. 287-322).
General Characteristics of the Jains. Principles of their philosophy- Religious organisation : śrävakas and patis. Age of the Jainism. Analysis of the Abhidhānacintamani of Hemacandra. Concise review on each of the 24 Tirthakaras. The time according to thr Jaina doctrines. The cakravartins, the Väsudevas, the Baladevas and the Prativāsudevas--the Jaina geography and cosmology.
Vol. II, Pp. 315-320. On Inscriptions in South Bihari, (Article original : Translations of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ; vol. I, Pp. 520-523).
The immediate disciples of Mahāvīra. Two among them outlined the master. The one, Indrabhūti, or Gautamasvāmin, should have founded the Buddhism, the other, Sudharman, the Jainism. Study of an inscription of Nakur, dated samvat 1686, and recalling a homage to Gautamasvāmin by the care of Jinarājasūri, Pontiff of the sect Bịhatkharatara.
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J. STEVENSON--On the Intermixture of Buddhism with Brahmanism in the religion of the Hindus of the Dekkan. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Old series), Vol. VII, Pp. 1-8); London, 1843.
The Vithobă and Rakhami divinities, who form part of the Hinduist pantheon and are the object of a special cult at Pandharpur, would be some transformed Jaina divinities.
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R. Spence HARDY-Eastern Monachism. London, 1860.
P. 65. Custom of the Jaina priests to carry a voil on the mouth and to clear the road where they pass, in order to avoid the killing of the lowest animals.
P. 338. There are no more Buddhists in India. One meets only soine Jains who profess a modified Buddhism or some doctrines derived from the same source as the Buddhism.
P. 375. Curious account of the missionary RHENIUS, according to whom the grand Jaina priests are elected from the common majority.
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