Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s3.t2.5
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.s3.t2.5
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c14.s3.t2.5
The belief in ghosts in ancient days was so prevalent that the credulous people even thought it to be a marketable commodity The Brhatkalpa Bhāsya refers to a shop called kuttyāvana,²⁵⁴ where everything living or non-living was available It is said that there were nine such shops in Ujjeni during the reign of Candapajjota Rāyagaha also had such shops²⁵⁵
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- Bṛhatkalpalaghubhāṣya — Saṅghadāsagaṇi Kṣamāśramaṇa, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit