History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c24.6

v2.c24.6

Altogether the Jains form a small section of the population of India, according to the last census, numbering about 1,334,000 or scarcely 1 in 221 of the whole population.¹ They are by far more numerous in western India and Râjputâna than elsewhere; thus in Râjputâna there are 111,600 of the Digambara division, and fully twice as many Svetâmbaras; whereas in Mysore where the Digambaras outnumber the others by 6 to 1, they only count 11,700, and, whilst numerically fewer, they are equally less influential than their co-religionists farther north.²