Note 40 — CHAPTER 19
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Vidyavan, the ‘Man of Secrets or Knowledge,’ is the term used by way of reproach to the Jains, having the import of magician. Their opponents believe them to be possessed of supernatural skill; and it is recorded of the celebrated Amara, author of the Kosa or dictionary called after him, that he raculously’raculously’ “made the full moon appear on Amavas”—the ides of the month, when the planet is invisible.