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philosophy, and still more of Indian religión and ethics. His teachings must have acted like a weir across a swollen river."
The relation between Buddha and Mahavira seems to be one of independence on both sides. The suggestion made by Dr. Hamilton and Major Delemaine, and considered by Colebrooke as very probable, that Gautama Buddha was originally one of the disciples of Mahavira seems to us if not ini: possible highly improbable. According to these persons' suggestion, which seems to have convinced Cunningham, Gautama Swami or Gautama Indrabhuti, one of the chief disciples of Mahavira is the same personage as Gautama Buddha, the founder of the Buddhist religion. Colebrooke in support of this hypothesis says in his Essays “ In the Kalpa Sutra and in other books of the Jains the first of Mahavira's disciples is mentioned under the name of Indrabhuti, but in the inscriptions under that of Gautama Swami.
The names of the other ten precisely agree, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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