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1. nay al and. Wa eon Fat adn i Mohri) 20.W And Ml and K, Magen Jag Coane, Mies a! an Wit 6 Oxy, Sek Miya Regn Prt Conary 188. 9D) Spe Dt Homa Pree Kader 1393 6. ion eal eK. gen om 9.9K Wend Geng Color Daan Hay, operon rapes 1938 110K Wop nd Ole Overton on open in Soe Pay aps Rit on Sy 199 12. Momo, Lmtd. Pty Prat aie The ely fhe ermine Say 199 Jnin ena Pree Ase eres 260 South Asian Studies Paper, 5.15 Jain Doctrine and Practice: Academic Perspectives ‘edited by Joseph T. O'Connell j University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies 2000 BEING IN THE MINORITY: MEDIEVAL JAIN REACTIONS TO OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS Phys Grnott Intodvetion MEDIEVAL Jains were very much aware of the fat that they com stituted religions minority. Even when they may have dominated ‘small geographical rein terms oftheir umber, a mosteases atleast in north India, Islas nonetheless dwelt well within the borders of ingsoms that wee ultimately controlled by rales who were nt Jans. ‘Tho few medieval kings, ike Kumaraptle, who favoured Jainism and were anid to have actully been converted to Jainism were widely praled inthe tradion, a fn implicit acknowledgement that their Hberality and devotion o Sani constutedarare exception indeed.” ‘A far more common scenario seems to have been one is which Jain ‘monks and lay devotes engery sought some accommodation wih the Sat and the religious suthores in power, who were not Jain, inorder to secure for themselves the necessary freedom to worship. Medieval story coletions and biographical works are replete with accounts of Tain monks who were received at court and who obtained from ‘Musi or Hinds king, ad even sometimes a Buddhist overtord the right to goon pilgrimage to epecificholy places; at mes thisinciuded ‘the privilege of remittance of era plgsage taxcs In many cases ‘hg ex oumeoubogpisoKerp in Sata, Prat ad he acu eval: Noe bese Sey edo oi Ge et Saas Tenet pcr ofrcs nada on ons ase ‘Sohern arabe tetris Being inthe Minority 357 monks aio secured from a non Jin ruler the promise that he would

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