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A Short History of Jaina Law
13. Williams 1963: 31 writes that the book provides a picture "of a very Hinduized Jaina community in the early seventeenth century. It advocates many practices which in Jugalkishor Mukhtar's definition are contrary to Jainism. Its scope goes very much beyond the limits of other Śrävakācāras and contains a considerable amount of information on the Jaina law of personal status." The same criticism has been expressed by Mahaprajna 2000: 7, also of another Digambara text called Dharmarāsikā.
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14. The Sanskrit text published in 1906 in Ahmedabad under the title Laghu-Arhannīti claims to be an extract of the untraceable Prakrittext Bṛhad-Arhannīti-śāstra of Hemacandra Suri (12th century C.E.). See Winternitz 1920: 349, n. 1/1983: 547, n. 1; Glasenapp 1925/ 1999: 111/132.
15. Menski 2003: 74.
16. Aṇņā Saheb Bahadur Laththe (1878-1950), a lawyer, was the
Dīvāna of Chhatrapati Shāhu (1874-1922), Mahārāja of Kolhapur. He was a major leader of the Non-Brahman Movement, and founder of the Dakṣina Bhārata Jain Sabha.
17. "Our common religion is the basis of our common aspirations and what little work is possible in the direction of evolving common social life over and above this basis, is being done by our Mahāsabhā, our J.Y:M. Association and your esteemed Gazette. Reforms which are completely involved with family life must, F think, be left to individual evolution, for a long time to come" (Latthe 1906: 32).
18. At the time, presumptions of homogeneity were also imposed by the lay leaders of the new sectarian Jaina Conferences. The newly invented self-designation 'Sthānakavāsī', for instance, was originally intended to incorporate also the Lonkāgaccha traditions and the Terapantha: "It is no doubt very gratifying that Lonkāgachha, Terapanthī, Sādhumārgī, Dayā-Dharmī - all these have realised that they are one and the same as Śvetāmbara Sthānakvasi Jains (and this is really so) and they heartily participate in this great movement. The most prominent men of the Loka Gachh of Bengal also exhibit their readiness and willingness to lend every support to this pious cause" (Svetambara Sthānakvāsī Jaina Conference 1905: Appendix 1). See Flügel 2005.
