...the Jains than among the Hindus, Muhammadans or Christians in India; and it has been estimated that half the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity. Jainism has left its impress upon Indian art in architecture, sculpture and painting. The Jain shrine...

...that a single community, the Osi, or Oswal, numbers * 100,000 families, and that more than half of the mercantile ' wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity." Although not the religion of the State, the most popular creed is that of Crishna, or Kaniya. The mytho-history...

...India; that a single community, the Ossi or Oswal,* numbers 100,000 families; aud that more than half of the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity. Rajast'han and Saur£shtra are the cradles of the Buddhist or Jain faith, and three out of their five...

...Buddhism, which are denned as these : — " 1. That man may become superior to the Gods ; 2. That Nimtna is the Supreme good; 3. That religion consists in...Six years ago, the Jains built a handsome temple at Ujjain ; a Juttee, or priest of high character, arrived from Guzerat to consecrate it, and to place...

...ago by a fire. The Seats were Jains, and built several Jain temples in Murshidabad. Todd states, " more than half the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity ; the majority of the bankers are the Jains from Lahore to the Ocean." There are now few ancient edifices...

...India. Col. Tod wrote in l Commu- 1829 about the then Jains in his present. ^ Annals of Rajasthan ; and that more than half the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity. The same opinion has been expressed by Lord Reay and Lord Curzon about the present Jains. In the Upasakadasanaga,...

...faith, has 1 1,000 clerical disciples scattered over India ; that a single community, the Ossi or Oswal, numbers 100,000 families ; and that more than half...India passes through the hands of the Jain laity. Rajasthan and Saurashtra arc the cradles of the Jain faith, and three out of their sacred mounts, namely,...

...community. Colonel Tod in his Rajasthdn, and Lord Reay and Lord Curzon after him, have estimated that half the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jaina laity. Commercial prosperity implies shrewd business capacity and also steady, reliable character...

...merchants and bankers and form a very opulent portion of the community ; it is said that more than half of the mercantile wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laity. Although their objects of worship are the Tirthankars, they do not deny the existence of the Hindu...

...remark, that the pontiff of the Kliartra-gatcha (true branch), one of the many branches of this fuith, has 11,000 clerical disciples scattered over India;...wealth of India passes through the hands of the Jain laitv." — Tod, under Mewar, vol. ip 518. Col. Tod's contemporary, and superior officer, Gen. Malcolm,...