Word: jainist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madly ironic note was furnished by a group of Jainist monks who alighted from an airplane at New Delhi, their mouths and nostrils scrupulously masked. Fleeing for their own lives, they had not neglected a strange precaution of their sect. The Jains believe that the air is a living thing and that they protect the air from injury by filtering it through the masks as they breathe...