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e. 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. [12] Mahavira was born in the early 6th century BCE to a royal Kshatriya Jain family of ...
Mahavir Janma Kalyanak is one of the most important religious festivals in Jainism. It celebrates the birth of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last Tirthankara (supreme preacher) of present Avasarpiṇī. [a] On the Gregorian calendar, the holiday occurs either in March or April.
The text depicts Gosala as having been a disciple of Mahavira for a period of six years, after which the two fell out and parted ways. Śvetāmbara text Bhagavati Sutra mentions a debate, disagreement and then "coming to blows" between factions led by Mahavira and by Gosala. [62] Jainism also flourished under the Nanda Empire (424–321 BCE). [63]
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Until the discovery of Vardhamana Puranam ("Life of Varadhama", c. 1042) written in Kannada by an author who goes by the same name, it was broadly accepted by scholars including E.P. Rice, R. Narasimhacharya and K.A. Nilakanta Sastri that Nagavarma II lived in the mid-12th century (1145) and was also the Katakacharya ("poet laureate") of ...
Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada Award for contributions to Kannada literature Award Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1955 Last awarded 2023 Highlights Total awarded 69 First winner Kuvempu Recent winner Lakshmisha Tolpadi Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
Jivantasvami image of Tirthankara carved on Torana. The Jain temple is dedicated to Mahavira and belongs to Śvētāmbara sect of Jainism. The temple is considered a testimony of architecture Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty. [10] This a large temple [11] surrounded by enclosing wall consisting of garbhagriha, mandapa. The temple features a sanctum, a ...
Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. [1] Attestations in literature span one and a half millennia, [2][3][4][5][6] with some specific literary works surviving in rich manuscript traditions, extending from the 9th century to ...