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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society that we are indebted for the 

 latest and most detailed accounts, and the papers of Mr. Colebrooke, 

 Major Delamaine, Dr. Hamilton, Colonel Franklin and Major 

 Tod,* furnish many interesting particulars relative to the doctrines and 

 past or present condition of the Jams. Some valuable illustration of the 

 latter subject is to be found in the Calcutta Quarterly Magazine : '\ some 

 historical notices obtained from the inscriptions at Abu, occur in the last 

 volume of our Researches, whilst a novel and rather comprehensive view 

 of Jain literature is contained in the Catalogue of Manuscripts collected 

 by the late Colonel Mackenzie.! 



From this latter authority, we learn that the literature peculiar to 

 Jainas, comprises a number of works peculiar to the sect, the composition 

 of their own writers, and on a variety of subjects. § They have a series 

 of works called Pur Anas, as the Adi and Uttara Purdnas, Chdmunda Raya 



* On the Philosophy of the Hindus, part IV. by Mr. Colebrooke, vol. 1. On the Srdwaks, 

 or Jains, by Major Delamain, vol. 1, 418. On Inscriptions in Jain Temples, in Behar, by Mr. 

 Colebrooke, Dr. Hamilton, and Colonel Franklin, vol. 1, 520. On the Srdwahs, or Jains, by 

 Dr. Hamilton, vol. 1, 531. On the Religious Establishments in Mewar, by Major Tod, vol. 2. 



f Particularly in the Journal of a Native Traveller, from Calcutta, and back again through 

 Behar. The traveller was a learned Jain, in the service of Colonel Mackenzie. There is also an 

 interesting account of a visit to the temple of Parswanath, at Samet Sikhar. 



% Vol. 1, page Hi, &c. 



§ The List comprises ii Works 



Puranas, 7 



Cheritras and Legends, ... 10 



Ritual, Prayers, &c 18 



Medicine, 1 



Grammar 2 



Arithmetic, 2 



Miscellaneous, 4i 



P 1 



