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organization. Their organization may have lent itself to Buddha for imitation for, "It is evident that Buddha was a head of a monastic order of the same type as that to which Nâtaputta belonged.” Nataputta indeed stood out againt Buddha's preaching as an able representative of the older order, and even the Bhddhists have thought him an important personage and recorded for us some details of his life As for the Jains, by a strange though significant transference of title they called him a Buddha. « For before Buddha there were heretics and even Buddhas, for the title was Buddha's only by adoption."
In his Hibbert Lectures for 1831 Rhys Davids proposes to deal with two suggestions which militate against Buddha's originality. On the one hand he quotez Prof. Jacobi for the vie' that " the Buddhist theory of the Buddlas was derived from a corresponding theory of the forerunners of the Jains." The
other allegation is that Gotama borrowed Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
