Electric Sheep > Issue Two > The Jain's Death
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He recognized Anuradha as a Jainist nun immediately. The simple white robe... The cloth over her nose and mouth, to avoid inhaling flying insects... The broom she used to sweep the path before her, to avoid stepping on small creatures...

Like most of the people in his Hindu village, the farmer regarded the Jains with a mixture of ridicule and awe.