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Three Faiths in the Land of ‘Aryan’ Thoughts
Suganchand Jain
hree major religions experiences when he first took to
originated in this ancient asceticism at the hands of Muni - land of Aryan' thoughts. Pihitasrava, who was a follower They are: the Vedic Religion, of Lord Parshvanatha, the 23rd Jainism and Buddhism, all Jina. independent faiths which have Buddha narrated how he went influenced each other over naked, took food in his own millennia and none of which was palms, and followed various an “offshoot of any particular other rigorous restrictions religion.
expected of a Shramana ascetic. Among these, the Vedic Buddha followed this practice religion and Jainism are older for some time. However, when than Buddhism, which was he felt it had become too founded by Shakyamuni rigorous, he gave up the Jain Gautama, aka Gautama Buddha. ascetic practice and wore saffron The Buddha was younger coloured clothes. He founded his contemporary of Mahavira, the own middle-path which came to last Tirthankara in the cycle of be known as Buddhism. 24 Jinas.
Rsbha was the founder and In the Buddhist scripture first Tirthankara of the present Majjhi ma nika ya time cycle called the Avasarpani Mahasimhanada verse 12, the kala. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Buddha himself tells his writes in 'Indian Philosophy' : disciples of his severe ascetic "The Bhagavata Purana endorses
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