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JAINISM: A THEISTIC PHILOSOPHY “GOD IN JAINISM”
Jainism passed through many storms and upheavals from time to time since its birth, and yet it could survive and did not disappear from the soil of its origin, India, like its sister religion Buddhism. The chief cause of this seems to have the inflexible conversation of Jains in holding fast to their original institution and doctrines. This is the reason, as Prof. Jacobi has pointed out, that although a number of vital rules concerning life and practices of the monks and layman may have fallen into oblivion or disuse, yet the religious life of the Jaina community even now is substantially, the same as it was two thousand years ago."
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"Polenceli Bothbayra Jain, . Life in Ancier
Dr. Jagdish Chandra Jain, “Life in Ancient India, as depicted in Jain Canons”, Bombay, 1947, P-30
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