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Mahavira, luis reputerl predecessor Parsva llaving almost certainly existed as a real person, and that, consequently, the main points of the original doctrine may have been codified long before Mahavira.”
P. 21 Intro. to. UTTARADHYANA CHIARPIENTIER.
Noti: No, II L. "The systems which we call Jainism and Buddhism had their roots in the forgotten speculations of the prehistoric past ; but, S ue know them were founder respectively by Vardhamana, Mahavira and Gautam Buddha. Both these jihilosopliers, who were for many years contemporary, were born, lived and died in or near the kingion of Magacha, the modern South Biliar."
P. 29 Vincent A. Smitli’s The lụarly History of India 3rd Tidlu.
Nori No. II M. . “On the other hand we possess two documents from the middle of the next century which prove that they advanced into south-eastern India as far as Kalinga. These are the inscriptions at Khandagiri in Orissa, of the great King Kharavela and his first wife, who governed the east coast of India from the year 152 to 165 of the Maurya era that is, in the first half of second century B. C.
