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P. 103. The region of modern Mysore was very important from very early times and served as a kind of half-way-house for all who discended on the South from the North. The pious expedition of Chandragupta and a band of Jain ascetics led by Bhadrabahu reaching Mysore in the first half of the third century B.C.
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P. V. BAPAT (General Editor): 2500 years of Buddhism, (Delhi, 1956); P. L. VAIDYA: Origin of Buddhism (Chap. II).
P. 11. Five types of Śramanas including the Nigantha (Jaina) and the Ajiva which are mentioned in the Jaina literature frequently.
P. 13. The Jaina group their 363 schools broadly into four, namely, the Kriyavada, the Akriyavada, the Ajnanavada and the Vinayavada. Mahavira being shown as the champion of Kriyavada. The principal tenets of the Kriyavada school are that misery.
P. 14. Is the result of one's own acts, and is not caused by anything else, that release from Samsära can be secured by knowledge of the highest truth and by good conduct. According to Jaina sources Ajita kešakambalin is the champion of the Akriyavada which roughly corresponds to the Lokayatika or the Cärväka school. No specific mention of any teacher who believed in the doctrine of Vinayävåda is found in Jaina sources.
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P. 15. Nigantha Nätaputta, who is no other than Mahavira, the founder, or, according to the Jaina tradition, the last prophet of the present world cycle, seems to have been slightly older than the Buddha. He preached ethical doctrines without apparently knowing that similar ideas had been held by an incomparably senior ascetic, Pariva. The latter is Mahavira's predecessor and lived 250 years before Pārśva. Mahavira.
P. 16. Pārsva's ethical code consisted of four rules while that of Mahāvira's consisted of five. The disciples of Päriva and those of Mahavira met at Śrävasti and brought about the union of these two schools. In Samaññaphala-sutta Nigantha
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