↑ Jain Symbol. Jainworld. Тәүге сығанаҡтан архивланған 14 октябрь 2012. 29 март 2012 тикшерелгән. ↑ Helmuth von Glasenapp,Shridhar B. Shrotri. 1999. Jainism: an Indian religion of salvation. P.24. «Thus not only nothing, from the philosophical and the historical point of view, comes in the way of the supposition that Jainism was established by Parsva around 800 BCE, but it is rather confirmed in everything that we know of the spiritual life of that period.» ↑ Dundas, Paul. 2002. The Jains. P.17. «Jainism, then, was in origin merely one component of a north Indian ascetic culture that flourished in the Ganges basin from around the eighth or seventh centuries BCE.» ↑ Helmuth von Glasenapp,Shridhar B. Shrotri. 1999. Jainism: an Indian religion of salvation. P.15 «Jainas consider that religion is eternal and imperishable. It is without beginning and it will never cease to exist. The darkness of error enveloping the truth in certain, periodically occurring aeons clears up again and again so that the brightness of the Jaina-faith can sparkle again anew.» ↑ Dundas, Paul. 2002. The Jains. P.12 «Jainism is believed by its followers to be everlasting, without beginning or end…» ↑ Varni, Jinendra; Ed. Prof. Sagarmal Jain, Translated Justice T.K. Tukol and Dr. Narendra Bhandari. Samaṇ Suttaṁ IAST. New Delhi: Bhagwan Mahavir memorial Samiti. «The Historians have so far fully recognized the truth that Tirthankara Mahavira was not the founder of the religion. He was preceded by many tirthankaras. He merely reiterated and rejuvenated that religion. It is correct that history has not been able to trace the origin of the Jaina religion; but historical evidence now available and the result of dispassionate researches in literature have established that Jainism is undoubtedly an ancient religion.» Pp. xii — xiii of introduction by Justice T.K.Tutkol and Dr. K.K. Dixit. ↑ Joel Diederik Beversluis (2000) In: Sourcebook of the World’s Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality, New World Library : Novato, CA ISBN 1-57731-121-3 Originating on the Indian sub-continent, Jainism is one of the oldest religion of its homeland and indeed the world, having pre-historic origins before 3000 BCE and the propagation of Indo-Aryan culture…. p. 81 ↑ Jainism by Mrs. N.R. Guseva p.44 ↑ Wolfram Alpha: Jainism : country, population, types, central figure, .... Wolfram Alpha. 23 июнь 2012 тикшерелгән. ↑ Indian Census. Censusindia.gov.in. 1 сентябрь 2010 тикшерелгән. ↑ Estimates for the population of Jains differ from just over four million to twelve million due to difficulties of Jain identity, with Jains in some areas counted as a Hindu sect. Many Jains do not return Jainism as their religion on census forms for various reasons such as certain Jain castes considering themselves both Hindu and Jain. The 1981 Census of India returned 3.19 million Jains. This was estimated at the time to be at least half the true number. There are an estimated 25,000-30,000 Jains in Europe (mostly in Britain), 20,000 in Africa, 45,000 plus in North America (from Dundas Paul The Jains — Routledge, 2002. — P. 271. — ISBN 0-415-26606-8, 9780415266062. ) and 5,000 in the rest of Asia. ↑ The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in India, John E. Cort, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (January — March, 1995), pp. 77-87 ↑ Яблоков И. Н. История религии. В 2 томах. Том 1. 3-е издание.