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जिनश्रावक (jinazrAvaka)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
jina-śrāvaka, pupil of a jina, applied in Mv 〔ii.118.2, 3〕 to the pupils of Ārāḍa Kālāma, and in 〔ii.119.9, 10〕 to those of Udraka Rāmaputra. Senart assumes that this means that these teachers were Jains. But in default of any other evidence this seems unlikely
jina is of course also a title of a Buddha, and we may infer from this that it could be applied to the founder of any religious sect.