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#131 – I always thought it was like “vah-joo” kinda like “vah-jina”.
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It was either dina wa, a jina wa - whatever, you know, a feeling of an essence.
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The name is derived from jina, conqueror, one of the epithets popularly applied to the reputed founder of the sect.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Wangu msimamo. yani kweli mshahara wa dhambi ni mauti sijui uzuri na jina unapoteza muelekeo wa maisha taifa linakutegemea family inakutegemea na maisha yenyewe ndo haya dada umepotea sana na mungu akusaidie huna future tena wewe na i dont think hapo ulipo una msingi wowote zaidi ya hilo jina linalo kuchafua kila siku at the time you will be wake up na muda utakuwa umeisha nenda huko kafunzwe usubiri msamaha wa Rais
BongoCelebrity 2009
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Victorious Ones and Peaceful Conquerors A sculpture of Rshabha, a jina, is at the Rubin Museum of Art, where one of two shows of Jain religious art is on view.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2009
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You'll find a handful of superb examples at the Met, including the big marble jina, snow white and ultraserene, that has become a kind of mascot for the South Asian galleries.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2009
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The jina nearest to our own time was named Mahavira.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2009
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The story these works tell begins with a prenatal mix-up: the future jina, though expected to be of royal birth, has been conceived by a nonroyal Brahman couple.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2009
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YourMoralLeader: on my blog, 'coz i outed that 18yo jina davidovich guest36: thought because you posted about the lawsuit, or did that come afterward?
Your Moral Leader 2008
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[...] mwanafunzi mwenye jina la Nathan wa Chuo Kikuu cha Sayansi na Teknolojia cha Mfalme Abdulla (KAUST) kilichofunguliwa hivi karibuni alipoleta malalamiko kwamba gazeti hilo limetumia picha zake pamoja na uchambuzi wake kuhusu [...] 3 November 2009, 12: 06 pm
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