Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c3.6

c3.6

One important feature brought out by Dr. Law is the fact that in the Jain texts we find many more references to related philosophical systems and to secular literary works than can be found anywhere in the Buddhist canon. Jainism in fact on the literary side shows a much greater development than what is to be seen in the Buddhist texts. This aspect takes us further than the stage which Dr. Law has undertaken to examine in the present work, yet it is worth recalling here, for it shows that this stage was not a mere transient phenomenon, but that it underwent a fruitful development, as has been well described by Buhler: