The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c5.1

c5.1

§ 1. It was in the year 1807 that in the *Asiatic Researches* (Calcutta and London), Vol. IX, there appeared three reports published under the title "Account of the Jains" and collected by Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Colin MACKENZIE supplemented by an abstract from his diary of 1797 and from that of Dr. F. BUCHANAN¹, the latter containing some notes of a Jain gentleman. These publications were immediately followed by H. Th. COLEBROOKE'S "Observations on the Sect of Jains"². They were based upon those researches as well as on Colebrooke's own, and it was in them that, apart from bare descriptive recording, some scholarly spirit first made itself felt by a critical standpoint taken and by facts being combined. Jain research thus dates from somewhat more than 150 years ago.