Parshvanatha was one of the four Tirthankaras, who attracted the most devotional worship among the Jains in the 7th century and Jain ideas were made popular by him. It has been long recognised that early Buddhism and Jainism were not the movements for social reforms directed against the caste system, but against the authority of the Vedas and the efficacy of Vedic rites. The first female disciple of Mahavira was Chandanbala and said to have been a captured slave woman. Buddha was not in favour of granting equal status to the nuns in the mendicant order. Thus, statement (4) is incorrect.