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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1453 Translation of the memoir constituting the first part of "I" Annual Address of M. HOERNLE at the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in 1898 (to see the proceedings of that Society, 1898, Pp. 39-53).
The text of M. HOERNLE is found still in the Calcutta Review. 1898, Pp. 315. 333 and that second edition contains some complementary pages dealing with the Jaina doctrines.
1692
S. Krishnaswami ArYANGAR--Self-Immolation which is not Sati, (IA, xxxv, 1906, Pp. 129-131).
P. 129. There are numerous instances of Jains performing the act of Sallekhanā, i.e., death brought on by starvation.
1693
J. C. R. FORLONG--Faiths of Man ; A Cyclopaldia of Religions, 3 Vols. London, 1906.
Vol. 2, P. 308. The Jains are followers of Mahāvira (or Vardhamāna) the contemporary of Gotama Buddha. They include Digambaras and Svetāmbaras. rati, ascetics, are naked and laity (Śrāvakas or "discipl s") are clothed. The Jain scriptures include 45 agamas in Jain dialect. They aim at nirvana (Encyclop. Brit.).
1694
J. KENNEDY—The Child Krishna, Christianity, and the Gujaras. (JRAS, 1907; Pp. 951-991).
P. 975. Jain traditions to represent the oldest form of the Krishna legend.
P. 976. Mathura, originally a capital of the Surasenas, was afterwards entirely Buddbiest and Jain.
1695
D. T. SUZUKI--Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism. London, 1907.
P. 8. The Hinayānists and the tirthakas were sweepingly condemned by the Mahāyānists as inadequate to achieve an universal salvation of sentient beings.
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