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Activities of Jain Religion
in the Last Century
As we examine the activities of Jain congregations (sanghas) during the last hundred years, a fact, that surfaces is that the activities in Gujarat affected the activities in other states of India and the activities in other states of India and the activities of Jain religion in other states echoed in Gujarat. It is, therefore, not only proper, but also necessary to examine the religious activities of Gujarat in the perspective of the whole nation.
In A.D. 1884 Hermann Jacobi translated the two Prakrit Jain Canonical (Agan) books Acharangasutra and Kalpasutra into English under the caption "Jain Sutras'. In the preface of this book Hermann Jacobi has established that the Jain religion is not an off-shoot of Buddhism. Lassen, Wilson, Vebar and other scholars believed that Jainism had emanated from Buddhism. Jacobi respectively refuted the four arguments of professor Lassen and proved that Jainism is absolutely
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