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was not intended for the Brahmans alone but for the Dvijanma, the Brahmans, the Kshatriyas, and the Vaishyas.
If you say that Brahmanism is a religion that knows Brahman, how would you then apply this term to those sections of the Hindu philosophy, the Samkhya and the Purva Mimamsa, for instance, from which that Brahman is absent?
Hinduism and Brahmanism appear to me misnomers then, if you apply the terms to the Vedic religion, the religion of sacrifices, or even to Hindu philosophy. There is no such thing as Hinduism or Brahmanism in ancient times. There is, of course, Vedic religion, and out of this Vedic religion Jainism never comes.
Let us now see if Jainism was founded by Parshva Nath. Let us now see if
Jainism was not foun.
ded by Parshva Nath but Parshva Nath is spoken of as the by Rishabha Deva.
founder of Jainism in any of the Buddhist, the Jain or the Hindu scriptures.
Buddhist works.
The Buddhist Texts are silent on the point and this was to be expected because Buddhism was started only in the days of the last Tirthankara, Mahavira. In Buddhist scriptures there is mention only of Mahavira at the head of the Nirgranthas. Mahavira is not mentioned therein as the originator of the Nirgrantha creed but simply as the leader of the Nirgranthas so far as Dr. Jacobi has been able to ascertain.
