List of the 42 manuscripts.

Philippe Étienne Ducler (1778-1840), a colonial administrator in Karikal, in the French Settlements of India, built up in a few years a collection of Tamil manuscripts and gouaches, illustrating various subjects, which ar...

It is the Jina or "Victors" from whom the religion takes its name, while its followers are the "jaina", or, in French, the "jains".