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here even before Mahavira,as can be seen from the two quotations given above from Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
4. Jainas do belive in God but not as the Creator or the Destroyer of the Universe. According to them any soul may obtain perfection and thus become God.
5. The lifeless objects do never possess soul. There exist two clear divisions of animate and inanimate objects in the Jaina philosophy. Inanimate objects do never possess soul. They believe as Sir J. C. Bose and other modern scientists have begun to believe.
6. Both the sects have their own sacred books, no doubt, but treating with the same philosophy and history in different languages; Swetamberas mostly in Prakrit and the Digambaras in Sanskrit.
But the ensuing remarks of the learned authors are quite objectionably and needlessly passed.Can the authors safely quote the names of any two branches of a religion where the trifling disputes are not going on temporarily or permanently ? But has any historian ever dared pass such remarks, or would one dare now when the feeling of the Hindus and the Mohammadans are rising so high against each other,especially when writing a book like this to be taught in schools, as a supplementary reader ? Can they quote
