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A SHORT HISTORY OF JAIN RESEARCH
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on a large scale, Hindu mythology was adopted by the Jains and brought in accord with their own principles is a fact known too well that it should be treated here in detail. The remarkable process of making out of a Bodhisattva a Roman Catholic Saint? finds its not less remarkable counterpart in the sain ability of transforming epic heroes and other individuals into venerable persons of their own creed. The difference is that the said process in the West, thanks to translating a wandering subject into many languages, was unconscious, while the Jains with conscious energy satisfied their pious requirements at home.
E, KUHN, Barlaam and Josaphat, comp. WINTERNITZ, History 2,
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