Category: History - Religious
The late Dr. Georg Bühler's essay _Ueber die Indische Secte der Jaina_, read at the anniversary meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna on the 26th May 1887, has been for some time out of print in the separate form. Its value as a succinct account of the Śrâvaka...
Beside the conscientious observance of these rules, Tapas—Asceticism, is most important for the right walk of those, who strive to attain _Nirvâṇa_. Asceticism is inward as well...
4. Chapter 4A large member of dedicatory inscriptions have come to light, which are dated from the year 5 to 98 of the era of the Indo-Skythian kings, Kanishka, Huvishka, and Vâsudeva (Bazo...
1. Chapter 1The late Dr. Georg Bühler's essay _Ueber die Indische Secte der Jaina_, read at the anniversary meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna on the 26th May 1887, has b...
3. Chapter 3On consideration of this information, it immediately strikes one, that the scene of Vardhamâna's activity is laid in the same part of India as Buddha laboured in, and that sever...
5. Chapter 5The mythology of the Jainas, whilst including many of the Hindu divinities, to which it accords very inferior positions, is altogether different in composition. It has all the a...
6. Chapter 6"The perfected souls considered singly—_êgattêṇa_ (as individuals)—have a beginning but no end, considered collectively—_puhuttêṇa_ (as a class)—they have neither a beginning no...