ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the new ideas concerning the very man which heralded the rise of Sakya may be found in the paramount religion, in Brahman culture, itself. It is generally admitted that the movement known now as Jainism led the movement of the Sakyans by about a generation, and had then their headquarters at Vesali. The Jains were probably calling themselves Nataputras, a name which is parallel with Sakyaputtas or -puttiyas, of the Pali books, for the followers of Gotama the Sakyan. The Jains used the word karma in speaking of the procedure by which the consequences of a man's deeds might be annulled, so that his future would not be worried by them. The leading idea which Jain and Buddhist books have in common is ahirjsda "not-harming", wherein the "man" is seen as in every form of life, and hence as giving value to all life.
