जैन धर्म की प्राचीनता.... Antiquity of Jainism.... None can ignore the remarkably rich Jain heritage in India for over 5,000 years. The Jain and the Vedic traditions comprise the two ancient streams of religious and philosophical thought in India, the former being the older. Jain principles are radically different from mono/polytheistic faiths; Jainism, for instance, is irreligious in its denial of the concept of creation/creator and ins¬tead follows the ‘Anadi Anantam Cho’ evolutionary concept, that is, the universe has always existed and will always exist. Nude figures, considered Rishabha, have been discovered at Mohenjodaro and Harappa. Seal motifs found there are identical to those found in the ancient Jain art at Mathura. Scholars like Radha Mookerji, Roth, Chakravarti, Ram Prasad Chanda, T.N. Ramchandran, Maha¬devan, Kamta Jain, Radhakrishnan, Hiralal Jain, Zimmer, Jacobi and Vincent Smith have all established that Jainism is anancient religion which is not a sect or sub-sect.