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( 223 ) which is to last twenty-one thousand years. Two thousand and five hundred years have already passed.
The present Kalpa is Utsarpani, in which twentyfour Jain Tirthanikara appeared: (1) Rşabhadeva (2) Ajitabātha (3) Sāmbhavanātha (4) Abhinandananātha (5) Sumatinātha (6) Padmanātha (7) Saparávanatha (8) Candaprabha (9) Puspadanta (10) Sitalanátha (11) Sreyānsanātha (12) Vāsupujya (13) Vimalanātha (18) Arahanatha (19) Mallinātha (20) Munisuvratanatha (21) Naminātha (22) Neminātha (23) Pārsvanātha, and (24) Māhāvira ( Vardhamāna ) or Nigantha Nata
putta of Pāli literature. 2. Kalpasætra, SBE., xxii., pp. 281-285 : Harivaruša-Pur.
āna, 8. 15. Mahapurana of Puşpadanta, Sandhis 1-3. Atharvaveda, Chapt. xv.; They may be purified with the vrātyastoma method and treated as follower of Vaidic religion. ( Kātyayana and Apastambha Srauta. sutra ). Munayo vātarasaņah pisanga vasate malā (Rgveda, 10. 136, 2-3), Kesyagpiñ kesi visarh (ibid. 10. 136. 1), and Kakardave Kraşabho yukta asid ( ibid. 10. 102.6 ) etc. are the references to prove the
antiquity of Jainism. 4. Rgveda, 10. 102. 6. 5. Visu Porāna (ed. Wilson ), 2. 1. p. 163; Bhagavat
Purana, 5. 3. 6.; Markandeya Purānā,50; Kurma Purāna 41; Agni. 11; etc. Jain, K. P., JA. Vol. 1 No. ii., 1935, p. 19. Also see Modern Review, August, 1932-Sindhu Five Thousand Years Ago. Ramchandran, T, N., Hadappa and Jainism,
Anekānta, October, 1972. pp. 159. 7. JBORS. iii. 465. 8. The Philosophy of India, p. 60. 9. Weber, ( Indische Studian, xvi. 210; Jaina Itihāsa
Series, No. 1. p. 6; Jainism in North India, introduction. ) adduces four points of coincidence, which, according to his opinion, prove that Jainism, has branched off from Buddhism, ( Indische Alterthumskunde,
