Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c21.4

c21.4

The period of the commentaries which varies from the first century to the seventeenth century A.D. could not be mixed up with the Sūtra period. But since the commentaries preserve a good deal of old traditions and without them the Āgamas could not be properly understood, the material embodied in them is utilised in the present work. However, the material embodied in the Jain Canons is pretty old and may be compared with the Buddhist Suttas and other works of the early period before the Christian era.