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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Narsinghpur (1906). Pp. 56-57. The district counts about 2,500 Jains. They are preponderant in more than 100 villages.
Saugor (1906) Pp. 48-50. The Jains are in number of 15,000 in this district, may be onethird of the Jaina populalion of the Central Provinces.
Generalities on the Jain religion : temples, cult, customs; the car festival.
Damoh (1906).
P. 44. The district counts about 7,000 Jains They are generally bankers. The Cārnāgars constitute a special sect of Jains in this district : their customs.
Betul (1907).
P. 61.
The Jains are few in number in this district : less than a thousand.
Balaghat (1907). P. 82. The number of the Jains in the district is 402.
Seoni (1907). P. 46. One counts 1,282 Jains in this district.
Chhindwara (1907). P. 43. Number of Jains in the district : 1,558.
Bhandara (1908).
P. 47. There are only 83 Jains in this district.
Nimar (1908).
P. 57. Jainism was formerly flourishing in the district. It counts today 1,600 representatives. Some temples in ruin are seen at Harsud, Khandwa and Mandhata.
P. 235. Khandwa. This town was, in the 12th century, a centre of Jain cult. The relics of the ancient temples. The modern temple.
P. 243. Mandhata. Ruins of temples. Statues of Santinata dated 1488 A.D.
Yeotmal (1908).
P. 49. According to the census of 1901, this district counts 2,568 Jains,
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