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researches in the subject. Dr. S. C. Vidya Bhushan says:
“Jainism is one of the most ancient and noble religions......... If India stands unique in the world of her spiritual and philosophical development, no one will deny that credit goes to the Jainas no less than to the Brahmins and the Buddhists”.
Prof. Ram Prasad Chandra, a famous scholar of archeology says:
"The ancient Jaina sculptors of Mathura, dating from the Ist century A. D., guarantee the antiquity and au henticity of many of the Jaina traditions". Dr. R. Fuhrer says.
"Lord Nemi Nath, the 22nd Tirthankara of the Jainas ( a contemporary of Lord Krishna ) has been accepted as a historical person".
Dr. Prem Nath Vidyalankar, in a note on the Babylonian King Nabuchadnazzar (1140 B. C. ) which he had discovered in Kathiawar, says :
"In deciphering this inscription one may say that it may go a long way in proving the autiquity of Jaina religion, since the name of Nemi Nath appears in the inscription."
