jainism-the ancient religion

If anyone heard about jainism usually they think about "lord mahaveer".because many of them misbelieve that
jainism is founded by"lord mahaveer".seeing jains statues some of them mis-believe that buddist statues of
"lord buddha".buddhism is seprate religion ."lord mahaveer" is the 24th theerthankara(24th god)
of the jainism.lord mahaveer was born on 2612 years ago.do you think that last theerthankara was
born in such a long year ago then what is the age of jainism? and who is the founder of the jainism?
please wait we will see it in the next blogging