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by diversions to other region to protect themselves. These dark activities are also alluded in the R. V.
Migration
It was, perhaps, from this time that the religion bifurcated in Jaina (pure ) and Pasupatas ( mixed ) who simultaneously moved to Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Ujjain, Magadha and Nepal. They took their sacred Āgamas & mystic Āgamas with them which well lost in due course of time & revived from time to time. They carried the words like Panam for currency and the economic words like Pasu ( for cow which had been still a symbol of business & not the cow only).
It was only quite later that they were accepted as devils and perhaps the satirical word Jina ( II=devil ) was put for them. By now they had become stronger enough to fight the tortures of Indra, of course with non-violent method.
To Conclude —- Phoenicians with other tribes established themselves in Indus region; they lived peacefully with non-violent intellectual business activities. Indra uprooted them. It was the cause of the spread of their religion. Ultimately in this region, they survived & florished profoundly even today.
* Department of Sanskrit Delhi University,
Delhi.
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