Bharat Chakravarthy, after whose name this country is named (which bramins do not like, so they adopted british word " india"), he was most likely close to jainism, as maurya, pallava and Ashoka, samprati was following jainism.Most of kings before christ were jain, few of them later followed budhism. Hinduism didn't exists till 4th century A.D. and it became valid only after 8th century A.D. when most of jain , budhist temples were vandalised and converted. You uncover any god in south Indian temples you will either find jain idol or budha behind the scene. You don't have to believe this, just go and find out...with few temples, this is self experiment you can do easily.
