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P. 379. Nudity of the monks treated with reverence before Mahavira as also in the Vedic period. Mention of Jain muni in Padma Purana of the time of Raj Vena of the Vedic period. Jainas (Niganthas) described as naked monks in the Buddhist literature.
P. 380. Nakedness of the Jain monk -an original practice and not a subsequent innovation started by Mahavira-Digambara tradition holding Rṣabha to be the first introducer of nudity in Jainism.
P. 381. Jain images of pre-Christian are found at Mathura and KhandagiriUdayagiri are nude figures-Jain images of Mathura, which name the gacchas, ganas etc., as found in the Svetambara 'Kalpasūtra', are also nude like those found in the Digambara Jain temples of that place.
P. 381 (n). Many a Digambara Jain temple abound with naked images assig ned to early or pre-Christian eras-mention of an image of Rṣabhadeva at Kunthalgiri which bears the date Samvat 1919 and another of Parsvanatha at Patna of Samvat 184. Kampilla, Pabhosa and other Jain temples possess naked images of Pre-Christian era..
P. 382. The language of the Jain canon (Śvetämbara Jain Angas) is far later than the time of the Nandas': A. B. KEITH.
P. 383. The installations of naked images, as found in Häthigumpha inscriptions of 2nd century B. C., proves the antiquity of Digambaras over Svetämbaras. Mention of Digambara Jain priests having audiance with Alauddin and Aurangazeb and preaching Jain doctrines to them.
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C. MUKERJI A modern Hindu view of life. Calcutta, 1930,
P. 11. Mention of Kumāril Bhatta cutting down the heads of a number of Buddhists and Jains, men, women and children and severed heads crushed to pieces after obtaining permission from the reigning Hindu king.
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C. R. JAIN-Essays and Addresses, Allahabad, 1930.
Jainism Jaina Siddhan'a- the power of Jainism to stop human warfare-a comparative study of Jainism and other religions-religion and science-knowledge and its nature syadrada, the safeguards which maintains consistency in metaphysical thought-origin of Jainism and the doctrine of suicide-veil of Karma-immortality and joy-Ahimsa-spirit and matter-instinct.
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