How was royal patronage an important factor in the growing popularity of Jainism and Buddhism ?
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Lord Buddha was the founder of Buddhism and preached only in the area covering present day UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal border but his disciples also preached into the foreign lands. Jainism is one of the oldest religion in the world and they traced their history through a history of successors known as Tirthankaras and Mahavir was the last tirthankar. In the early age the political spread of the Bharatkhand was much larger and jainism was spread all across. It travelled outside India in places like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran etc, with the foreign tourists visiting India at that time. But its spread was not as spectacular as that was of Buddhism. Though Jainism and Buddhism share some common features, the latter spread spread to other Asian countries while the former is confined to India.