Crossword-Solution: JAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jain | n. | Alt. of Jaina |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JAIN | anagram | ANJI, JANI, JIAN, JINA |
We have 16 clues for the answer “JAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adherent of Indian faith. | 1 answer |
| Believer in a Hindu creed that espouses respect for every living organism | 1 answer |
| Believer in ahimsa | 1 answer |
| Believer in the nonviolent principle of "ahimsa" | 1 answer |
| HINDU sect member, non-Brahminical | 1 answer |
| INDIAN sect with doctrines like those of Buddhism | 1 answer |
| Member of Hindu creed. | 1 answer |
| Member of an ancient religion that values nonviolence | 1 answer |
| NONBRAHMINICAL Hindu sect member | 1 answer |
| Religous minority of India | 1 answer |
| HINDU religious adherent | 2 answers |
| Hindu sect member | 2 answers |
| Member of a Hindu religion. | 2 answers |
| Member of a Hindu sect. | 2 answers |
| Ascetic Hindu | 3 answers |
| INDIAN ascetic | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JAIN (5)
Tod’s account of the Jain temples, if correct, show a finer outline, and purer sense of beauty, than appears native to India, where the monstrous always predominated over simple nature.—M.] 3611 (return) [ This rite is so curious, that I have subjoined the description of it:— When these (the exorcisers, the Shamans) approached Zemarchus, they took all our baggage and placed it in the centre.
There is an account of a religious mendicant of the Jain caste who as a means of penance fasted for ninety-one days.
From drinking spirits also the great sin arises, hence the consuming of spirits and flesh is not advisable.” The minister having in this manner explained to the king the sentiments of his own mind, so brought him over to the Jain faith, that whatever he said, so the king did.
Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India.
The chief of the Jain delegation read his paper of congratulations, then pushed it into a beautifully engraved silver cylinder, which was delivered with ceremony into the prince's hands and at once delivered by him without ceremony into the hands of an officer.
Quotes with JAIN (3)
Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of he…
The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones).
We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, S&S, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).