The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (663 page)

karas' preaching, the most fundamental texts, the Purvas, are now lost. But D. believe that what remains of the t
rtha
karas' preaching is a kind of resonating echo, transmitted orally by successions of disciples, whereas the
. have a ‘45-text canon’ (though actually they give equal respect to texts outside that boundary). However, the D. have sacred texts of their own (e.g.
Satkhand
gama
, ‘
gama of Six Parts’ and
Kasayapahuda
, ‘Treatise on the Passions’), and both D. and
. revere some texts in common, e.g.
Tattv
rtha S
tra
, by a disciple of the D. Kundakunda.
There remain some differences concerning M
hav
ra:
. hold that he was born with a miraculous change of wombs, D. do not;
. that he was a pleasure-loving prince who experienced sudden conversion, D. that he was always full of insight, but that he respected his parents' wishes, until they died, not to renounce the world;
. that he was married, D. that he was not.

 
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