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PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA
finds its not less remarkable counterpart in the Jain ability of transforming epic heroes and other individuals into venerable persons of their own creed. The difference is that the said process in the West, thanks to translating a wandering subject into many languages, was unconscious, while the Jains with conscious energy satisfied their pious requirements at home.
[Taken from Die Lehre der Jainas (1934), translated into English by Wolfgang Beurlen, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1962).