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Choudhury for making this knowledge available to us in such very simple and easily intelligible form.
Because of the common belief in the great fundamental doctrines of karma and re-incarnation by all the great faiths of Jainism, Buddhism, and what is known as Hinduism, which should really be known as vaidika, manava, sanatana, or what describes it best, varnashrama dharma.to the lay mind they strike as one and the same. Hinduism being traditionally regarded as the oldest, Jainism and Buddhism are taken as streams that have flowed from the common source. We can, with justification, say this of Buddhism for, from all accounts, Lord Buddha stood out pre-eminently for protest against the many rites and ceremonies, customs and manners that had crept into the Hindu faith of his times, by whatever name it might have been called then. He evolved a new faith based undoubtedly on all the old principles and main lines of thought. Many centuries later various revolts of a social, political and spiritual nature drove the religion out of the land of its birth even though the great name of its founder is daily uttered by a million mouths from end to end of the land, as people, in their religious observances, describe the present age as that of Bauddhavatara.
Buddha himself is eternally embodied in our thought and scriptures as the ninth incarnation of
