Ray wrote:

>>Mahavira, the founder of Janism was born in 599 BC and died in 527 BC.

Mahesh wrote:
>
> Mahavir was not the founder of Jainism. He was the 24th "Tirthankar". This
> can be researched very easily by referencing modern scholarly peer reviewed
> journals.
>
> Mahesh aka ElectronicBoy

Mahesh,

        After reading the following -- www.west.net/~beck/EC8-Mahavira.html --
it appears that saying "Mahavir was not the founder of Jainism [but] the
24th "Tirthankar" is like saying "Jesus was not the founder of
Christianity but the last in a long line of prophets."

Robert, aka "He who has never killed a defenseless broccoli"