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CHAPTER XIV
THE COMMUNITY OF THE FAITHFUL
अष्टषष्टितीर्थेषु यात्रायां यत्फलं भवेत् । श्रीश्रादिनाथदेवस्य स्मरणेनापि तत्फलम् ॥
[Tr. The merit that may be acquired by going on pilgrimage to sixty-eight Tirthas (Holy Places), is acquired by the mere thinking of God Adinath.-(Risabha Deva)!] Hindu Adoration (untraced).
Jainism marks a distinction between the higher and the lower orders of its followers. The community is divided into four classes, namely, Saints and laymen (termed householders) among males, and nuns and pious laity among females. The division is grounded on the principle that all men and women cannot be expected to come up, all at once, and without long and adequate previous training, to that high ideal of self-effacement that demands the selling off of all one is possessed of and its distribution in charity.
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