Historical Facts About Jainism

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

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was one of the literary and official languages of Northern and North-Western India during the first centuries before and after the beginning of our era. PP. 165-169 Vienna Oriental Journal, Vol. I 1887 by G. Buller.
NOTE NO. II F.
"The Naya clan to which he (Mahavira) belonged seem to have supported a body of monks who followed the rule of Parsvanatha, an ascetic who had lived some two hundred and fifty years before Mahavira." P. 31 Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson's, "The Heart of Jainism."
NOTE No. II G.
"Mahaviras parents (and with them probably their whole clan of Nayakshattriyas) are said to have been followers of the tenets of Parshwa -Natha (See Ay. II, 15, and 16)."
Hoernle's Edn. N. Vol. II, p 6.
NOTE No. II H.
Dr. Guerinot says:
"There can no longer be any doubt that Parsva was a Historical personage. According to the Jain Tradition he must have lived a hundred years and died 250 years before Mahavir. His period of activity, therefore corresponds to the 8th century B. C.