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hence it is to be concluded that Gautama, first of one list is the same with Indrabhuti first of the other.
“ It is certainly probable as remarked by by Dr. Hamilton and Major Delemaine that the Gautama of the Jains and the Buddhists is the same personage, and this leads to further surmise that both these stocks were branches of one stock.” The other argument which Colebrooke puts forth is this. The Jains say that only two of Mahavira's disciples survived him, Indrabhuti and Sudharma, and out of these two only one, Sudharma left behind him spiritual successors, while the other left no disciple in the Jaina Sect. This according to him can be clearly accounted for by indentifying Indrabhuti the apostate with Gautama who founded the rival order of Buddhism and who thus loft no successors in the Jain Sect. Then Colebrooke goes on speaking about the tenets of the Bhuddhists which he finds in many respects analogous to those of the
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