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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY P. 722. Bịhat i amhita of Varāhamihir records naked ascetic worshippers in the temple of Jains.
P. 725. Gaņeśa came to be worshipped even by the Jains.
P. 927. Jains sanction religious suicide by Sallekhana.
P. 928. Kalandri inscription records the suicide of a Jaina congregate by fasting.
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Bimala Churn LAW--India as described in the early texts of Buddhism and Jainism, London, 1941.
P. 59.
Acaranga Sūtra speaks of Lādha (West Bengal).
Pp. 199-200. Hierarchy of gods as conceived in early Jainism.
Pp. 208-9. Eight mangalas or auspicious symbols of the Jains (Aupapatika sülra, sec.49) and other mangalas (ibid. Sec. 53, 55).
P. 210. Jainas, though opposed to caste system, were champions for purity of blood.
Pp. 211-12. Jainas in sympathy with democratic constitution--difference between Jaina and Buddhist orders.
P. 215. The Uttaradhyayana Sūtra mentions royal Jaina hermits.
Pp. 227-8. Practices of Jaina Samaņas.
P. 233. Praises attributed to Mahāvira by ascetics.
P. 240. Mahāvira's early wanderings in Lādha described in Acāranga Sūtras (i 8. 3-4).
P. 268. Kalpasūtra preserved the Vinaya of followers of Pārsva-Acaranga sutra represents Vinaya works of Nirgantha sect of Sramaņas- later works of some class within Jaina Agama--the Upāsakadaśānga represents oldest text of the Jaina Grhivinaya.
Pp. 273.4. Literary qualities and the importance of the Jaina Agama (Svetambara canon).
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