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JAINISM
been set out above will be proved to be credible before the end is reached.
Jainism has thus far remained only in the background in modern times because bitter persecution drove it underground, so to speak, in the past. Some of those who took up its study recently approached the subject from a wrong point of view the linguists--or were unable to lay aside the inborn prejudice of the Western mind against 'heathenism ''collectively. Their opinions' and reports are consequently to be accepted with great caution.
