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( 36 ) was not intended for the Brahmans alone but for the Dvijanma, the Brahmans, the Kshatriyas, and the Vaishyas. : If you say that Brahmanism is a religion that knows Brahman, how would you then apply this term to those sections of the Hindu philosophy, the Samkhya and the Purva Mimamsa, for instance, from which that Brahman is absent ?
Jainism was not foun.
Hinduism and Brahmanism appear to me misno-. mers then, if you apply the terms to the Vedic religion, the religion of sacrifices, or even to Hindu philosophy. There is no such thing as Hinduism or Brahmanism in ancient times. There is, of course, Vedic religion, and out of this Vedic religion Jainism never comes. Let us now see if Jainism was founded by
Parshva Nath. Let us now see if dea by Parohva Nath but Parshva Nath is spoken of as the by Rishabba Deva.
founder of Jainism in any of the Buddhist, the. Jain or the Hindu scriptures. The Buddhist Texts are silent on the point and
this was to be expected because Bud- Buddhist works. dhisn was started only in the days of the last Tirthankara, Mahavira. In Buddhist scriptures there is mention only of Mahavira at the head of the Nirgranthås. Mahavira is not. mentioned: therein as the originator of the Nirgrantha creed but simply as the leader of the Nirgrantħas so far as Dr. Jacobi has been able to ascertain.
