Jains, The

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface to the second edition; A note on transliteration and pronunciation; Introduction; The fordmakers; The Digambaras and the vetambaras; Scriptures; Doctrine; History: from early times to the late medieval period; The ascetic; The lay person; Jain relativism and attitudes towards Hinduism and Buddhism; Recent developments; Glossary; Notes; Sources in Sanskrit and Prakrit; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index.
The Indian religion of Jainism, is one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism.