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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A. P. W.-Modern Jain Antipathy to Brahmans. (I.A. vol. XXV, p. 316). Bombay,
1896.
Account of a custom in practice with the Saraogi Baniyäs, and which consists, on the occasion of a marriage, in throwing the arrows on a dummy representing a Brähman.
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H. KERN-Manual of Indian Buddhism. (Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, Band III, Heft 8). Strassburg, 1896.
P. 32. Nigantha Nätaputta (Mahavira), one of the chiefs of the six heretical. sects in comparison with Buddha.
P. 74. Seniority of the order of the Nigranthas (Jains).
P. 93. At Saranath, near Benares, rises today a Jaina temple on the ruins of the celebrated Buddhistic Vihara.
P. 112.
Asoka, in his edicts, testifies good sentiments towards the Jains.
P. 114 n4. Allusion to the cruelty of which Asoka should have given testimony with regard to the Jains at the end of his reign.
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J. DAHLMANN.-Buddha. Berlin, 1898.
The second part of this work, and principally the chapter devoted to the materialistic and sceptical doctrines, contains several extracts from the Jaina
sütras.
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Y.S. VANIKAR-Some Remarks on the Svastika. (Indian Antiquary, vol. XXVII, P. 196). Bombay, 1898,
The Jains give to the Swastika the first place among their eight symbols. It is for them the emblematical figure of a Siddha. Indeed, the central point (bindu) represent the life (jiva), and the four branches, the four conditions of the future. life (to become god; to go to the hell; to be born again in human form; to be born again in the body of an inferior animal). But in the swastika these four branches are bent back and like closed, for the Siddha is freed from all new birth.
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