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  Note to the Gutenberg edition: The following system has been used to
  transliterate the unusual, non-Latin 1 diacriticals from the original
  document:

    [A.]  Letter with dot below
    [.A]  Letter with dot above
    [=A]  Letter with macron above
    [.)]  Letter with candrabindu above

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                        ON
                  THE INDIAN SECT
                        OF
                    THE JAINAS

                        BY
       JOHANN GEORG BUEHLER 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 Buehler'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
['S]ravaka 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