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Mahavira ( Devanagari: महावीर, Mahāvīra ), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान, Vardhamāna ), was the 24th Tirthankara (supreme preacher) of Jainism. He was the spiritual successor of the 23rd Tirthankara Parshvanatha. [10] Mahavira was born in the early 6th century BCE to a royal Jain family of ancient India.
- One daughter, Priyadarshana, also called Anojja.
- Parshvanatha
- Vira, Ativira, Vardhamana, Sanmatinatha
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Mar 25, 2024 · Mahavira was the last of the 24 Tirthankaras (“Ford-makers,” i.e., saviours who promulgated Jainism), and the reformer of the Jain monastic community. According to the traditions of the two main Jain sects, the Shvetambara (“White-robed”) and the Digambara (“Sky-clad,” i.e., naked), Mahavira became
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Learn about the life, teachings and influence of Lord Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last Jain Tirthankara who attained omniscience and became the founder of Jainism. Find out his birth, renunciation, penance, death, titles, ideologies and scriptural significance.
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Sep 10, 2009 · Mahavira Mahavira. Mahavira is regarded as the man who gave Jainism its present-day form; although this is true only in the widest sense. He is sometimes wrongly called "the founder of Jainism".
Mahavira (flourished c. 850, Karnataka, India) Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to the development of algebra.. All that is known about Mahavira’s life is that he was a Jain (he perhaps took his name to honour the great Jainism reformer Mahavira [c. 599–527 bce]) and that he wrote Ganitasarasangraha (“Compendium of the Essence of Mathematics”) during the reign of ...
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Sep 23, 2020 · Vardhamana (l. c. 599-527 BCE), better known as Mahavira (“Great Hero”) is the sage credited with founding of the nontheistic religion of Jainism, a belief system established in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE in India, which provided adherents with a disciplined path toward spiritual liberation. According to Jain tradition, however, he is ...
THE TEACHINGS OF LORD MAHAVIRA. Lord Mahavira was born on March 30, 599 B.C. and attained the nirvana in the year 527 B.C. at the age of 72. He was a contemporary of Lord Buddha. He was the 24th and the last of the Tirthankars. The present form of Jainism was shaped by him. The cardinal principles of Jainism are: 1. Ahimsa (non-violence) 2.
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