Crossword-Solution: JAINS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JAINS | anagram | JANIS |
We have 11 clues for the answer “JAINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Believers who practice ahimsa, strict nonviolence to all living creatures | 1 answer |
| Certain Hindu ascetics | 1 answer |
| INDIAN conquerors of the self | 1 answer |
| INDIAN religious sect, wealthy, influential | 1 answer |
| INDIAN vegetarian sect | 1 answer |
| JAINISTS | 1 answer |
| Religious adherents of India | 1 answer |
| DEIFIED Saints | 2 answers |
| Hindu sect members | 3 answers |
| INDIAN inhabitant(s) | 38 answers |
| RELIGIOUS sect, type of | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with JAINS (5)
Rhys Davids (intimating also the uncertainty of the statements, and that numbers are no evidence of truth) in the introduction to his “Manual of Buddhism.” The Buddhists there appear as amounting in all to 500 millions:—30 millions of Southern Buddhists, in Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Anam, and India (Jains); and 470 millions of North Buddhists, of whom nearly 33 millions are assigned to Japan, and 414,686,974 to the eighteen provinces of China proper.
Between these two religions of Brahma and Buddha, that of the “Jains” sprang up, apparently a heresy from both.
The Jains agree with the Buddhists as to the transmigration of souls, and carry their respect for life to the still greater extent, that besides a strainer to remove all animalculæ from the water they imbibe, they carry a broom to sweep away the insects from their path.
The Jains form in some sort a transition-sect between Boodhists and Hindoos, differing from the former in acknowledging castes, and from both in their worship of Paras-nath's foot, instead of that of Munja-gosha of the Boodhs, or Vishnoo's of the Hindoos.
The Jains form in some sort a transition-sect between Boodhists and Hindoos, differing from the former in acknowledging castes, and from both in their worship of Paras-nath’s foot, instead of that of Munja-gosha of the Boodhs, or Vishnoo’s of the Hindoos.
Quotes with JAINS (2)
The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the utter disregard for the intellectual traditions and culture of one of the world’s great civilizations are characteristic of those who disdain self-reflection and intellectual inquiry. Confronting this complexity requires work and study rather than a retreat into slogans and cliches. And enlightened, tolerant civilizations have flourished outside the orbit of the United Sates a…
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2019).