Jaina Law Bhadrabahu Samhita

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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APPENDIX B.
for millenniums an, perhaps, according to the claim advanced by Mr. B. G. Tilak, in 'Our Artic Home in the Vedas,' the first Lord of the Jainas may be found in the then Arctics about 8,000 to 10,000 B. O; where did, then, the secession tako place? Where and when the Jainas one morning rose up and dissented from the Hindas? The fact is that the Rishabha of tho Yajur Veda (see reference in The Jaina Gazette, Vol. III, No. 5, for August 1906,) and the Hindu Bhagwat (Skandha 2, Adhyaya 7) is perhaps identical with the real founder of Jainism. In any case, Jainism certainly has a longer history than is consistent with its being & creed of di ssenters from Hinduism.
The inter-relation between Svetambaras and Digambaros is again needlessly misanderstood. It is said the former Yatis follow Lord Parsvanath and the latter Lord Mahavira. Even 8 child, with the most superficial acquaintance with modern Jainas anywhere, would porceive the absurdity of this. The distinction is not between Tatis or Ascotics only. It is wider. All the Jainas-monks and laymen-are either Digambara or Sretambara. And both follow Lord Parsvanath and Lord Mahavira. Both derive their common creed-98 per cent of the doctrine is idential in the two sects from Lord Mahavira. The distinction is due to a few minor differences in the mode of worship, in images, &c.
"Jainism originated in N.-W. Provincer." This is a very misleading half-truth. It casts doubt on the historicity of Lord Mahavira, who admittedly flourished and attained salvation in Bibar. The truth is that Jainism did originate under Lord Rishabh or Adinath, who lived and taught people the arts of defending themselves against wild beasts, and of agriculture, &c., untold number of years ago, in Ajodhya, in what was the N. W. Provinces in 1891, and is now the “ Voited Provinces of Agra and Oudh.” But Jainism, in in modern form, takes its rise in the life and teachings of Lord