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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 246. Digambara Jainas hold that women cannot get salvation except by being reborn as men.
Jaina nuns placed under a more rigorous discipline than monks.
P. 248. Svetāmbara Jainas concurred with the Buddhist view that womanhood was no bar to salvation,
P. 309. King Kumārapāla of Gujrat (1144-73) admits that widows had no right of inheritance (Mahaparajya, Act. III).
P. 310. Kumārapāla voluntarily foreswore his right to the property of the 'weeping widow' (Kumärapälapratibodha, p. 48).
P. 390. The Jaina saint Hemachandra described women as 'the living torch illuminating the way to hell' (Yogaśāstra, II, 87).
Jaina and Buddhist nuns have not attributed one's wickedness to the wickedness of the other sex.
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S. Srinivasa IYENGAR-Mayne's Treatise on Hindu Law and Usage. Madras, 1938.
P. 5. Jainas-following substantially the broad features of Hindu laws.
P. 88. Jains-governed by Hindu Law except in cases governed by their exceptional customs ---Jains rejection of Vedas-non-practising the Sradhas of the dead.
Superiority of the Brahmins not recognised by Jains.
P. 89. Jains-governed by Aliya Santāna law previously in Madras now substituted by Mitakshară law by the Jaina Succession Act.
P. 197. Hindu law of adoption applied to Jains in the absence of contrary usages.
P. 210. Power of Jain widow to adopt discussed. P. 239. Intricacies of Jain law of adoption discussed.
P. 247. Restrictive rules regarding the Jain law of adoption discussed.
P. 252. Ceremony accompanying adoption among Jains not essential.
P. 546(n) Right of a Jain widow to demand a share of partition of her husband's property-explained,
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