On the Indian Sect of the Jainas - Georg Bühler

ON THE
INDIAN SECT
OF
THE JAINAS
BY
JOHANN GEORG BÜHLER C.I.E., LLD., PH.D.
Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

EDITED
with an
OUTLINE of JAINA MYTHOLOGY BY
JAS. BURGESS, C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 1903.

CONTENTS.

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CONTENTS.

[Preface]

[THE INDIAN SECT OF THE JAINAS],
by Dr. J. G. BÜHLER.
[Appendix]:
Epigraphic testimony to the continuity of the Jaina tradition
[[Fig. 1]] [[Fig. 2]] [[Fig. 3]] [[Fig. 4]] [[Fig. 5]] [[Fig. 6]] [[Fig. 7]]
[Footnotes]

[SKETCH OF JAINA MYTHOLOGY],
by J. BURGESS.

[The Gachhas of the Jainas]
[Footnotes]

PREFACE.

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 sect, by a scholar conversant with them and their religious literature is well known to European scholars; but to nearly all educated natives of India works published in German and other continental languages are practically sealed books, and thus the fresh information which they are well able to contribute is not elicited. It is hoped that the translation of this small work may meet with their acceptance and that of Europeans in India and elsewhere to whom the original is either unknown or who do not find a foreign language so easy to read as their own.

The translation has been prepared under my supervision, and with a few short footnotes. Professor Bühler's long note on the authenticity of the Jaina tradition I have transferred to an appendix (p. 48) incorporating with it a summary of what he subsequently expanded in proof of his thesis.