Both Mahavir and Buddha preached and traveled in the same area for so long.Is there any instance when they both came together and had a discussion with each other also.Why we didnt came across about a single incidence when the two great sage sat together.
The Tirthankar of the other great religion ‘Jainism’, that is, Mahavira or Vardhaman is mentioned in the Buddhists scriptures as Nigantha Nataputta – making him and the Buddha contemporaries. Mahavira may have died in 476BC, according to European scholars, but the Jain scholars prefer the date of 527BC. A Jainism Sutra says that Mahavira survived the Buddha by seven years. If Mahavira got Nirvan[death] in 476BC, then this would confirm the Buddha’s death year as 483BC, in accordance with the chronology of the Rock edict found at the Baudh sites.
