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Everything leads us to believe that the memory of ancient institutions had continued to survive, more or less intact at a time when the Bauddhas and Jainas had already revised the prerogatives of the sambhogas and samvāsas in order to adapt them to the particular characteristics of their doctrine and discipline.
In addition, whatever the precise meaning of the term, it seems that the severest forms of atonement with both the Jainas and the Buddhists were characterised by a strict refusal of admission to one or the other or to several of these types of association or communion.
