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To: Defiant
A much more reasonable explanation is that jain missionaries sent out by various West Indian kings in the 400s and 500s made it to Wales, Cornwall and Brittany.

Saint Gildas (who had 20 brothers, a typical jain way of describing it) has a name that means JOYFUL SERVANT in Sanskrit ~ and probably the Gujarat equivalent of Hindi at the time.

There are others.

Gildas taught a particularly rigorous type of pacifism called AHEMSA.

I"m sure everybody's read everything there is about this fellow.

17 posted on 06/20/2012 5:43:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
A much more reasonable explanation is that jain missionaries sent out by various West Indian kings in the 400s and 500s made it to Wales, Cornwall and Brittany.

LOL, see #20. BTW, did you intend to mean East Indian (Subcontinent) kings?

21 posted on 06/20/2012 5:50:38 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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