Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर, Mahāvīra), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान, Vardhamāna), was the 24th Tirthankara (supreme preacher) of Jainism...
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Mahāvīra (or Mahaviracharya, "Mahavira the Teacher") was a 9th-century Indian Jain mathematician possibly born in Mysore, in India. He authored Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha...
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name for Hanuman, Hindu god, devotee of Rama in the Indian epic Ramayana Mahāvīra (mathematician), 9th-century Indian Jain mathematician Mahaveera (film)...
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temples' "Main" or "Great Halls". The term "Mahavira Hall", also encountered as "Mahāvīra Hall" or "Hall of the Mahāvīra", is a reverse translation, employing...
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Mahavira: The Hero of Nonviolence is an illustrated children's story based upon the life of Mahavira, a teacher of the Jain faith. Mahavira: The Hero...
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Mahavir Janma Kalyanak (redirect from Mahavira Jayanti)
cosmology which is actually current now Jain, Kailash Chand (1991), Lord Mahāvīra and His Times, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-0805-8 Jain, Pannalal...
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cycle of time). A magnificent statue of Tirthankara Mahāvīra is installed here. The statue of Mahavira was carved out of a granite rock in Karkala in Lotus...
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confirmed by the ancient Buddhist texts that discuss Jain monastic life). Mahāvīra taught Five vows. The Digambara sect disagrees with the Śvetāmbara interpretations...
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historical texts and Mahāvīra's teachings. According to him, the "many pointedness, multiple perspective" teachings of the Mahāvīra is about the nature...
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elder brother of Mahāvīra Cellaṇā was married to the king Bimbisāra of Magadha Ceṭaka became an adept of the teachings of his nephew Mahāvīra and adopted Jainism...
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