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where there are a sufficient number of votaries to support a temple,
as in other religions; but, beyond this, the Jains seem, almost more
than any sect, to have realised the idea that to build a temple, and

to place an image in it, was in itself a highly meritorious act, wholly
irrespective of its use to any of their co-religionists. Building a
temple is with them a prayer in stone, which they conceive to be

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