A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.s2.139

c8.s2.139

To add one more instance. In all the editions of the Uṇādi-sûtras, Jina occurs as the name of the founder of a Bauddha sect. As many scholars have assigned to Jina and the Jains a very modern date, the presence of this name might seem to throw considerable doubt on the antiquity ascribed to the Uṇādi-sûtras. In a passage of Sāyaṇa, however (Rv. i. 61. 4.), where he has occasion to quote the Sûtra containing, among other words, the etymology of Jina, all the MSS. omit the root *ji*, from which Jina is said to be derived. It is equally omitted in Nṛisinha’s Svaramanjarî.