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¹ We should not like to pass over in silence the earliest references to the Jains. Comp WINDISCH in his Geschichte der indo-arischen Philologie etc., p 29, ZACHARIAE WZKM 24. 357-341 (reprinted in his Kleine Schriften, p. 41-47) and Festschrift Winternitz p. 174-185, RANDLE JRAS 1933, p 147 The Greek glossator Hesychios (5th century AD) mentions 'gennoi' as naked philosophers, a word in which M. SCHMIDT in his 2nd ed. (1867) of Hes p 342 surmises the Jains, comp GRAY and SCHUYLER, Am. J of Philol 22 (1901), p 197 LASSEN, Ind Altertumskunde 4 (1861) and LÜDERS KZ 38, p. 433 are not against SCHMIDT's suggestion, whereas STEIN in Megasthenes and Kautilya, p 293 f. maintains a cautious attitude.