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an historical personage and the real founder of Jain religion. As he is said to have died 250 years before the death of Mahavira, he may probably have lived in the eighth century B.C. Professor Jacobi seems to regard this date as not improbable, since sonie centuries must have elapsed between his time and the appearance of the last Jain prophet. But, as we have not a single certain date in Indian history before the time of Buddha, it is evidently impossible to prove this..............(P. 153).
(iv) In regard to the teaching of Parcva we are better inforinech : it was probably essentially the same as that of Mahavira and his followers. But we have no exact knowledge, except on two principal points, as to how far thiis creed was clue to Pareva, or what innovations may have been introduced by his successor. We are told that Parcva enjoined on his followers four great vows, viz. 110t to injure life, to be truthful, not to steal, and to possess 10 property, while Mahavira addech a fifth requisition, viz. that of chastity. Further we know that Parcva allowed his (lisciples to wear an upper and an under garment. Mahavira, on luis part, followed the more rigid rule which obliged the ascetic to be completely naked. These seem to have been, in fact, the most important differences in doctrine between the founder and the reformer of Jainism........ .........(P. 154).
