Outlines of Jainism c8.2

c8.2

¹ Professor Jacobi in his article JAINISM (Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics) mentions in particular the numerous tales in Prākrit and Sanskrit employed to illustrate works of a dogmatical or edifying character; further, Sanskrit poems, in plain or ornate style, and Sanskrit and Prākrit hymns. "Jain authors have also contributed many works, original treatises as well as commentaries, to the scientific literature of India in its various branches—grammar, lexicography, metrics, poetics, philosophy, etc."