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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
161
Pages.
Articles.
Accounts.
143.
Buldana
According to popular belief, the Jains would have formerly reigned in this district. (Jains, 6,482)
(82)
Bundi State
(294)
Cambay
(Jains form 5 per cent of the total).
(297)
Cambay town
(Jains, 3,063. Jama Masjid erected in 1,325, its interior pillars taken from desecrated Jain temples)
(320)
Jains, 73,830.
Central Division
(Bombay)
Central India
(348, 350)
The age statistics show that the Jains, who are the richest and best-nourished community, live the longest. Ages of girl marriages : Jains 12 years and 6 months.
Central India
(351, 353,
354)
Eastern Hindi, its early form was employed by Mahävira (500 B. c.) in expounding the tenets of his religion, whence it became later the language of the canonical books of the Digambar Jains. In the 11th and 12th centuries the Jain religion was the chief form of worship of the highest classes in Central India, and the remains of temples and images of the Jains are met with all over the Agency. Jains, 89,984 in 1891 and 112,998 in 1901.)
333
Champanagar
Residence of the priests of the Oswäls.
Volume III-condt. (Vol. X)
(19)
Central Provinces.
(Ancient and modern Jain temples are found in several localities in the northern Districts; almost all in ruins; were finely built. At Kundalpur more than fifty modern temples. Jains, 48,644 in 1891 and 47,306 in 1901. Of the total population, of the province, the Jains number 48,000).
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