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H. OLDENBERG-Noch einmal der vedische Kalender und das Alter des Veda (Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vol. XLIX, Pp. 470-480) Leipzig, 1895.
P. 480. Review on Pärsvanatha. The Jains regard Pārsvanatha as a predecessor of Mahāvīra and place his nirvana 250 years before the death of the latter. Pārsvanatha can be considered as a historical personage. He was undoubtedly a man, whose moral and religious tendencies charmed Mahavira. There would not be any difficulty to admit that such a man had lived during the period of the Brahmanas or at the end of this period.
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J. DAHLMANN-Das Mahabharata als Epos und Rechtsbuch. Berlin, 1895.
Pp. 134-136. The legend of Draupadi and of the Pandavas in the Jhaladharmakatha-Resemblance with the Mahabharata. Arguments of M. E. LEUMANN in favour of the high antiquity of the Jaina editing. Criticism of these arguments. The Mahābhārata, in it actual state may have served as model to the Buddhist and Jaina recensions.
Pp. 172-173. The Mahabharata points out religious constructions (chaityas and stupas in particular), the origin of which would be Brähmanical and would go back to a very remote period. Evidence borrowed, according to BÜHLER, from the Buddhistic and Jaina architecture.
P. 174. Similarly, the Jaina and Buddhistic sculpture derive from a very distant source, to which the Mahabharata makes occasionally allusion.
P. 223. Comparison of the Jaina legend of Paesi with some analogous passages of the Mahabharata.
Jain Education International
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M. WINTERNITZ-Nejamesha, Naigamesha, Nemesa (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1895, Pp. 149-155). London, 1895.
Study on the resemblances between the Vedic Nejamesa, the Naigamesa of Suśruta and the Naigameya of the Mahabharata on the one hand, and the Hari. negamesi or the Nemesa of the Jains, on the other hand.
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