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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.
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 ...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
To me, that line “Heartbreak is the national anthem” sums up how she takes these really intensely personal, lonely emotions and this community gathers around them, and there’s this tribe ...
Jana Gana Mana (lit. '[Ruler of] the minds of the people') is the national anthem of the Republic of India. It was originally composed as "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata" in Bengali by polymath Rabindranath Tagore [1][2] on 11 December 1911. [3][4][5] The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India ...
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, will be performed at the Super Bowl for the fourth time in a row, the latest legacy of the traditional song. Andra Day ...
Phil Sklar, Co-Founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, wrote in an email that Wilson has sung the national anthem and “God Bless America” at nearly 1,000 events.
Parshvanatha did not require celibacy, [90] and allowed monks to wear simple outer garments. [85] [91] Śvētāmbara texts such as section 2.15 of the Ācārāṅga Sūtra say that Mahavira's parents were followers of Parshvanatha, [92] linking Mahavira to a preexisting theology as a reformer of Jain mendicant tradition.