Jai Jinendra.

Yes,He stated that Jainism is NOT offshoot of Buddhism.

Has he said that Jainism is the OLDEST? Older than Hinduism?

Your tweet may generate some FALSE impression hence presenting some of analysis of HERMANN JACOBI from his book JAIN SUTRAS .

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While proving that Jainism &Buddhism are seperate ,he state& justify that Jain's borrowed many practices from Vedic Model .
Dealing with Proposition and proving ,he also consider that possibility that brahmin ascetic was copying from jains ,
But he straight forward Reject that point and Stated -
"Brahmnism is OLDER than Buddhism and JAINISM"

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He further goes on Analysing Indic text and remarked as Jains and Buddhist

COPIED from Brahminism.
He established that JAINISM is not an offshoot of BUDDHISM & different from it
BUT BUT

He says both of them developed out of Brahmanism ,

However he also established that non-brahmanic monk & Brahmin monk are distinct in earlier period also
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He only stated independence of JAINISM from BUDDHISM
Yes. He stated that Mahavira is NOt founder

Last but not least he said that -
No jain literature is before of 300BC @BharadwajSpeaks
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Well l will read the book you posted ,
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