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Page 130
... Jainism , Sikhism , Christianity , and Zoroastrianism , are also found in South Asia . Jainism is the chief religion of the district of Jodh- pur and of certain trading and business castes . It may be regarded as a sect of Hinduism ...
... Jainism , Sikhism , Christianity , and Zoroastrianism , are also found in South Asia . Jainism is the chief religion of the district of Jodh- pur and of certain trading and business castes . It may be regarded as a sect of Hinduism ...
Page 133
... Jainism disdained the use of San- skrit and adopted literary languages - amalgams of dif- ferent dialects of the parent language of their own , Pāli in Buddhism and Ardhamāgadhī in Jainism . These lan- guages , usually called Prakrits ...
... Jainism disdained the use of San- skrit and adopted literary languages - amalgams of dif- ferent dialects of the parent language of their own , Pāli in Buddhism and Ardhamāgadhī in Jainism . These lan- guages , usually called Prakrits ...
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... Jainism ( 6th century BC ) and the more slowly emerging rearticulation of Brahminism into Hinduism . Neither the earliest Buddhists nor the Jains availed them- selves of Sanskrit in their preachings , apparently viewing the language as ...
... Jainism ( 6th century BC ) and the more slowly emerging rearticulation of Brahminism into Hinduism . Neither the earliest Buddhists nor the Jains availed them- selves of Sanskrit in their preachings , apparently viewing the language as ...
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