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Aspects of Brahmanical Influence on the Jaina Niythology
accounts with an air of originality, the authors havc cffected arbitrary alterations in the borrowed matters. Eventually, this has led to irreconcılable discrepancics among the different versions Over and above that, thc Jaina knowledgc or some of the epic-Puranic subjects was not based on their direct acquaintance with the original icxts, but, was derived from hearsay which is liable to perversion and misrcpresentalion ol facts
Under the circumstances, it is of immense significance that we meet with a good many number of instances which, even in their modified, altcrcd and distorted forms, point to the same traditional truth as is told by the Brahmanical cpic. Purānic works
