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(32) of the objections are quite baseless as shown below. We have to say in reply, that the gentleman is not justified in saying that our remarks on Jainism are entirely unfounded, misleading, wrong and injurious to the religious feelings of the Jain Community, etc. We regret to notice that the tone and the language employed by our critic rather betrays haste and savours ill-will on his part. For his satisfaction and that of the T. B. C., however we propose, in our reply to deal with each point seriatim and feel quite sure that it will convince the reader that our remarks on Jainism are not incorrect or besides the point. The views we have expressed are expresssd by standard writers no Indian History and will also be found in books on Indian History both in Urdu tand English which are already taught as Text books in Schools.
Lastly we have to say that these remarks are in no way damaging or condemnatory to Jain religion.
We shall deal with the points seriatim:----
1. “We shall tell the story of Mahavira who founded Jainism”.
The critic objects to the above remark in our book and adds: It is QUITE WRONG according to Jain History as well as foreign authors. Mahavira was not the founder of Jain religion, but the 24th and the last Tirathankara. We quote below from the foreign authors:
