The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c5.4

c5.4

In H. H. WILSON'S "Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus" we find some stray notes about the Jains, but no details are given, though, on the other hand, the author dwells upon Vol. I of the *Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society* (1827) which contained an essay by DELAMAINE and one more by BUCHANAN (=F. Buchanan HAMILTON), both with the title "On the Srawacs or Jains" and followed by a few remarks of the latter and of W. FRANCKLIN about some Jain temples, by COLEBROOKE'S account of two inscriptions, and by WILSON'S own review of COLEBROOKE'S study "Sect of Jina" in his "Essays on the Philosophy of the Hindus"¹. In the same year, 1827, FRANCKLIN'S "Researches on the Tenets of the Jeynes and Boodhists" were published, the first book that had the Jains in its title. Its descriptive portions are readable even now, whereas this cannot be said of its mythological and speculative deductions.