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A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c6.80

A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c6.80

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c6.80

"The Śvetāmbara Jains have also borrowed the term Aṅga from their Brahmanical opponents, to denote the first twelve principal works of their canon, while the Digambara Jains have also borrowed the term Veda from the same source, to denote the principal divisions of their sacred literature."²