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SPLIT
BETWEEN BRAHMINS AND
JAINS
687
The Jains were formerly in close
communion with the Brahmins both in faith and doctrine,
tions very gradually.
but they opposed these changes from the very first with
Then, seeing that their remonstrances
power.
produced no effect and that these religious innovations were
daily making progress among the people, they found them-
selves reduced at last to the sad necessity of an open rupture
with the Brahmins. The immediate cause of this rupture
all their
was the introduction of the yagnam sacrifice, at which some
This, they contend,
living creature must be immolated 1
is directly opposed to the most sacred and inviolable princi-