The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.10
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.10
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c10.10
The systems which we call Jainism and Buddhism had their roots in the forgotten speculations of the prehistoric past; but, as we know them, were founded respectively by Vardhamāna Mahāvīra and Gautama Buddha. Both these philosophers, who were for many years contemporary, were born, lived, and died in or near the kingdom of Magadha, the modern South Bihār. Mahāvīra, the son of a nobleman of Vaisālī, the famous city north of the Ganges, was nearly related to the royal family of Magadha, and died at Pāwā, in the modern district of Patna, within the territory of that kingdom.