Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s1.42
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s1.42
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c5.s1.42
These literary evidences in Jain and Buddhist texts presuppose the existence of a *Nigantha* order founded by Pārśvanātha before the advent of Mahāvīra and there is much to be said in favour of the Jain tradition that Mahāvīra was no more than a reformer of an older *Nigantha* order.