A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c7.41

c7.41

It may be noted in this connection that at times legends related after a stereotyped pattern are often represented in the *Jaina* canon as a mere skeleton which the reader is left to fill in with set words and phrases like clichés. As observed in *A His. of Ind. Lit.* (vol. II, p. 450, fn. 3) “we find something similar in the canon of the Sarvāstivādins.” Furthermore, there on p. 280, fn. it is said: “Clichés of the same kind, also occur in the Bengali poems, s. Dinesh Chandra Sen, *History of Bengali language and literature*, p. 585 f.”