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APPENDIX
The
Jains.
— Differences
I
between them and the Brahmins \
The word Jain, or Jaina, is a compound word denoting
a person who has given up living or thinking like other men*.
A
true Jain should entirely renounce all thoughts of self.
should rise superior to the scorn or opposition to which
He
1
Jainism is a heretical offshoot of Buddhism, a