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largely from Kapila the reputed founder of the Sankhya system. Against the latter argument he urges the fact that "there is not the slightest evidence that any one of the writings of the six schools of philosophy are Pre-Buddhistic." If this be true of the faith of Buddha it is true a multa fortiori of the Jain system. But when he would get rid of the first alleggation by saying that the extant books of the Jains are many centuries later than the Pali Pitakas he at once enters into a fallacy. For the chief thing to be noticed is not what books of the Jains are extant now, but which authorities were avai lable in the age of Buddha and his disciples.
"There is one good reason for the treating of Jainism before Buddhism that the former represents a theological mean between Brahmanism and Buddhism." (Hopkins's Reli - gions of India). Thus on the one hand it bears a near enough resemblance to Buddhism to have been considered almost a sect of it by unwary inquirers, while on the
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