Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c3.2

c3.2

At the present time the first thing required is to know what the records actually say. In this respect Western scholarship has always been hampered. The difficulty in ascertaining the authoritative records has often led to rash and mistaken conclusions. Some good work on particular sūtras has been done by German, French, and Dutch scholars, but even the ablest of these investigators, Albrecht Weber,¹ thought that the Jains were one of the schismatic sects which branched off from Buddhism.