________________ .8. Austria, Hungary, Argentina, Greece, Alaska, North Pole, Egypt and Mongolia. Images of Jains have been unearthed. in Budapest, Hungary and Argentina; reports have appeared in the press together with illustrations of those images. Mr. Ferguesson, the noted authority on temple architecture has written to the effect that from his experience, he could very well say that Jaina relics would be found within a radi us of ton miles in every corner of India, the Bay of Bengal to Baluchistan and Kashmir to Kanyakumar. Dr. Ganganath Banerjea has written that the Jaina popula tione in India during the Maurya period amounted to more than twenty crores. Dr. Herman Jacobi, Dr. Mertal, Dr. Winterniz, Dr. Tasatori, Dr. Radhakrishnan, Lokamanya Tilak, Dr.Gangara th Jha, Dr. Satischandra Vidyabhushan, Dr. Radha Binod Pal, Maha tma Gandhi, George Bernard Shah and many other distin" guished schohrs have accepted the hoary antiquity of Jaina religion and Rishabhadeva as the originator of human culture and organi ser of human society. Modern history has accepted Bimbisar, king of Magadha, Kharavela , king of Kalinga, Chandra Gupta, the Mauryan Emperior, Samprati, King of Avanti, Mahara Kumarapal, king of Gujarat, Vanaraj Chawda, Maharaja of Gopupur in Gwalior State and many other rules of Southern kingdoms to be the follovers of Jaina religion. The master politician Vastupal, Udaya, Shantu Mehta, Manjula, Bhama Shah and Chamundarya of Mysore were also devoted follows of Jainism. The famous army commanders. Vimal Shah, Tejpal and Samara Shah were also adherents of the Jaina faith. Many wealthy and influential persons like Jagdu Shah, Pethad Shah, Dharu Shah, Dharma Shah,
