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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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M. Monier WILLIAMS. (Remarks on the Jains)-Journal of the R.A.S. of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, vol. XX, Pp. 277-288). London, 1888.
Origin and age of the Jainism: it is probably a little anterior to the Buddhism. Chief idea of the doctrine : the deliverance by the mortification of the body and the fight against the passions. Mahāvira and the question of nudity. Origin of the Digambaras and of the Svetāmbaras-Differences between the two sects. Jaina doctrine. The Tirthakaras. The individual souls. The moral. The metaphysical principles. The formula of worship. Observations of M. RANGA LAL.
Conservative tendencies of the Jains. Actual number of the Jains. Account of the dedication of a Jaina temple at Delhi. The fraternity and the mutuality among the Jains. The formula of worship. Religious customs. The pilgrimages and the sanctuaries. The Jainism and the question of the castes. The respect for the life even in its lowest manifestations.
Note of M. W. Davies. The resemblances between the Jains and the Vişnuites at Delhi.
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H. JACOBI-On Bharavi and Magha. (Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. III, Pp. 121-145) ; Wien, 1889.
The paragraph of this account is consecrated to Harichandra and to his poem, the Dharmaśarmabhyudaya. Harichandra is the imitator of Māgha and of Vākpati. He must then be younger than this last, who lived towards the middle of the 8th century.
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H. JACOBI--Ueber den Jainismusund die Verehrung Krischna's (Berichte des VII, internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses, Pp. 75-77). Wien 1889.
The Jaina cult. The Tirthakaras and other saints. Among the 63 personages of the Jaina mythology 27 are in harmony with the cult of Krisna. This resemblance is strict with regard to the 24th Tirthakara. Neminaiha. Origin of the cult of Krisna in the Jain religion. When the Jains spread out upto Guzerat towards the 3rd century of the Christian era, they met in this country the cult of Krisna, that they adopted willingly in order to ascertain more easily some laic adepts. A summary of this communication is given in the I.A., vol. XVI, Pp. 163-164.
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