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.




PREFACE.

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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