Crossword-Solution: JAINISTS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Adherents of a certain ascetic religion | 1 answer |
| Jains | 1 answer |
| DEIFIED Saints | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JAINISTS (2)
And having accomplished all this without fear of pain, "Gaze onward without claim to hope, Nor, gazing backward, court regret." This is the only system of morality deserving that much-abused name; it was preached and to a great extent practised in India by the Jainists and the Buddhists, and for the first time in the Old Testament by the author of our poem.
Jainism carries to a much greater length than Buddhism the "ahimsa," or prohibition of the destruction of life; the Jainists practise austerities which Buddhism discards, and in the philosophies of the two systems there are far-reaching discrepancies.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).