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". 

Buddhism is a religion of Indian origin that originated in the 6th-5th centuries BC in the eastern part of the subcontinent. It takes its name from its founder, Gotama Buddha, "the enlightened one". 

The development of Francophilia and Francophonie in India was part of the movement to participate in the narrative of the nation in the context of British rule...