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Furthermore supporting a "Short Chronology" for Mahavira's life time, is the Jain tradition about Bhadrabahu who was said to have been the last Jain monk who had personally met Mahavira, and who lived till the reign of Chandragupta Maurya after 320 BCE, suggesting that not more than one human-lifespan had elapsed between the time of Mahavira ...
According to Jain texts, the 22nd tirthankara Neminatha lived about 84,000 years ago and was the cousin of Krishna. [1] The two main sects of Jainism, the Digambara and the Śvētāmbara sects, likely started forming around the 1st century CE, and the schism was complete by about the 5th century CE. [2]
The idol of Mahavira is carried out on a chariot, in a procession called rath yatra. [8] On the way stavans (religious rhymes) are recited. [9] Statues of Mahavira are given a ceremonial anointment called the abhisheka. During the day, most members of the Jain community engage in some sort of charitable act, prayers, pujas, and vratas.
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The earliest layer of Jain literature on cosmology and universal history pivots around two jinas: the Adinatha (Rishabhanatha) and Mahavira. Stories of Parshvanatha and Neminatha appear in later Jain texts, with the Kalpa Sūtra the first known text. or depth, and the brief descriptions of the tirthankaras are largely modelled on Mahavira. [22]
Ghantakarna Mahavira is one of the fifty-two viras (protector deities) of Svetambara Jainism. [1] He is chiefly associated with Tapa Gaccha , a monastic lineage. He was a deity of the Jain tantrik tradition.
Jainism (/ˈdʒeɪnɪzəm/), traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion. Jain dharma traces its spiritual ideas and history through a succession of twenty-four leaders or tirthankaras, with the first in current time cycle being Lord Rishabhanatha, whom the Jain tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha whom historians ...
The Ācārāṅga Sūtra, the foremost and oldest Jain text (First book c. 5th–4th century BCE; Second book c. Late 4th–2nd century BCE), [1] is the first of the twelve Angas, part of the agamas which were compiled based on the teachings of 24th Tirthankara Mahavira.