Historical Facts About Jainism

Author(s): Lala Lajpatrai
Publisher: Jain Associations of India Mumbai

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Jain religion can be had as He is far beyond the historic range.
SHRI MAHAVIRA PROPOUNDER OR
ORGANISER.
Your statement "कुछवर्षके नीबडाली," that is "a new sect of Jainism was started by Shri Mahavira is not correct. By a reference to the introduction of Dr. Herniann Jacobi to the Jain Sutras it will be found that Shri Mahavira merely made five vows instead of four-there being no material change in the vows themselves. What Mahavira did was to reorganise the principles of Jainism, as a Tirthankar according Jain tradition ought to do.3
TEACHINGS OF JAINISM AND BUDDHISM.
Then proceeding to discuss the teachings of Jainism you state " जैन धर्मकी मिलती है" i.e. "The teachings of Jain religion resemble in a great degree with those of Buddhism." What we think is that there is a kind of similarity as is bound to exist owing to Shri Gautam Buddha being a contemporary of Shri Mahavira and , owing to both of them being reformers in common opposition to certain unreasonable Brahmanic practices.35 Beyond that there is bound to be general similarity such as must exist between the principal teachings of all religions. Otherwise the doctrine of Ahimsa as practised by the Jains is quite different, from that practised by