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12 Angas Acharanga Acharya Ahimsa Angas animal sacrifices Arya ascetic Asoka Avasarpini became Bhadrabahu Brah Brahman Buddha Buddhism called canon century Champa Chanakya Chetaka composed Council of Patna crores Dharma died disciple existence faith followers of Lord founder gachchha ganadharas Gautama Girnar give Gosala Gujerat Hemacharya Hindu History of Jainism India Jacobi Jain account Jain books Jain Church Jain monk Jain philosophy Jain writers Jainism Jambu Jiva Karmas king knowledge Kumarpal Kunika large number latter learned lived Lord Mahavira Lord Parswanath Lunkas Magadha Maha Moreover Nanda Nigrantha Nirvana object Panini Pataliputra Patna Pattavalis perfected soul period Prakrit present Prof Punamia Puranas Purvas Ravana reign religious Rishabha Samprati Sangha Sankhya Sanskrit Satrunjaya says schism sect spiritual Sravakas Srenika stage Sthulbhadra substance Sudharman Suhastin Suri Sutra Swetambers Syadvada taught temple thing Tirthankara Ujjain universe upto Vaisali Vajraswami Vallabhi various Vastupal Vedas vira vows well-known worship
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Page 91 - Commander of the next fleet to give us a helping hand with the ships' crews. Otherwise we shall hardly be able to complete the work with the few men at our disposal, as we are daily getting more work in hand and there is still much to be done in the way of trenching and digging up the gardens.
Page 40 - Poshadha, which was a fasting day ; for they said : 'since the light of intelligence is gone, let us make an illumination of material...
Page 85 - The officers of the state and revenue are chiefly of the Jain laity, as are the majority of the bankers from Lahore to the ocean."20 Akbar's treasurer was a Jain from Rajputana. The greatest banking family of them all, which received the hereditary title Jagatsath 'banker of the world...
Page 119 - Rut soul sometimes exists and also does not exist at different times. But the soul cannot be spoken of, if we think of affirming its existence and non-existence, at the same time and from the same point of view. Similarly, under certain conditions, viz. when the state of existence (ie astitva) itself cannot be spoken of, ie exists and exists and does not exist cannot be spoken of at the same time, we are unable to affirm that existence is possible, that non-existence is possible, and that both existence...
Page 128 - Hindus in their conduct towards the dead, omitting all obsequies after the corpse is burnt or buried. They also regard the birth of a son as having no effect on the future state of his progenitor, and, consequently, adoption is a merely temporal arrangement and has no spiritual object.
Page 98 - Purvavideha, a mythical continent. This tradition is very remarkable, as it assigns what we should call the composition of the two last parts of the A^aranga Sutra to the same time when the Kalpa Sutra, which treats of a similar subject, was composed! The third part is of great interest, as it contains the materials from which the Life of Mahavira in the Kalpa Sfitra has been worked out.
Page 102 - Here we find, too, a clear idea how a Jain layman limits his worldly pleasures to particular articles of luxury, particular clothes and food and to a certain sum of money.
Page 85 - Jains. In the Upasakadasanaga, we have got a picture of the immense wealth of of Ananda and other Sravkas of the time of the Lord Mahavira.
Page 85 - Again the forgoing pages have shown us that the Jain merchant-princes were millionaires and the monuments of their great riches are seen in the form of magnificient temples.
Page 39 - He used to stay one night in a village and five nights in a town. He always travelled on foot.