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 | | Mahavira was not the founder of Jainism in the sense that the Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. | | | Mahavira, and to some extent the Buddha, ignores the existence of the Vedic religion. | | | As stated earlier the Jainas Claim that their religion existed from time immemorial and Mahavira was the last great saint and reformer of that religion. |
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| | Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha, and the Jain religion has many similarities. | | | Mahavira was not the founder of Jainism: he was the 24th and the last saint of the religion, and the only one historically verifiable. | | | Mahavira was born a prince in Bihar, India (where Buddhism also was founded). |
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| | Mahavira was a great seer who preached the sacred doctrines of truth and Ahimsa. | | | Lord Mahavira devoted a lot of his attention in this direction and made religion the means of attaining to this great truth. | | | It is because of this principle of Ahimsa that Mahavira's name is worshipped to this day in the world-It was he who propagated the doctrine of nonviolence to the greatest extent. |
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| | Mahavira was one of those six Tirthankaras or teachers who were senior to Buddha and were sufficiently famous and popular to be consulted by the contemporary monarch Ajatasatru on matters of religion and philosophy, before Buddha could be thought of for the purpose. | | | BOth the Prophets, Mahavira and Buddha, were Ksatriya princes of Eastern India, and both renounced their kingdom for a life of asceticism, attained perfect knowledge through meditation and preached to the people the way to peace. | | | Not only this, but it has also been clearly stated that when the news of Mahavira's Nirvana reached the ears of Buddha, the latter thought it fit to summon all his followers together and warned them against any schismatic tendencies after his death, as was allegedly happening in the case of Mahavira's Nirvana. |
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| | Indian History - Mahavira |
| | Mahavira taught that the center of right conduct was the five great vows of which he preached until his death. | | | Not only did Mahavira attain nirvana but he also attained kevala. | | | In this, Mahavira was very faithful to his teachings. |
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| | Jainism Literature Center - Articles |
| | Mahavira, however, had to preach both to old and new followers, and obviously he must have been guided by a spirit of compromise: the question of new recruits was not with him as urgent as it was with Buddha. | | | Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha, and he stands as the 24th Tirthankara whose preachings fully breathe the spirit of what I have called Eastern stream of thought in India. | | | The period in which Mahavira lived was undoubtedly an age of acute intellectual upheaval in the cultural history of India; and among his contemporaries there were such religious teachers as Kesha Kambalin, Makkhali Gosala, Pakudha Kaccayana, Purana Kassapana, Sanjaya Belatthiputta and Tathagata Buddha. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/article/mahavira1.htm
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| | JAINISM - Hindu Influences |
| | Mahavira lived in the 6th century B.C.E. and was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha. | | | Popularly, Mahavira who was the last Jaina Tirthankara is confounded to be the founder of this faith. | | | Mahavira, like Gautama Buddha was born in a kshatriya family. |
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http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/jainism.html
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| | Janism |
| | Although Mahavira denied that any God or gods existed to be worshipped, he, like other religious leaders, was deified by his later followers. | | | Mahavira held firmly to such Hindu beliefs as the law of moral retribution or karma and the transmigration of souls after death. | | | According to Jain belief, Mahavira is the 24th Tirthankara, the last and greatest of the savior beings. |
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http://www.greatcom.org/resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/03chap02
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| | Life of Vardhamana Mahavira |
| | After Mahavira attained Kevala, a Samavarsana (religious conference) was held on the bank of the river Ujjuvaliya, but it is said that the first preaching of Mahavira remained unsuccessful. | | | This would bring the years of the death of Mahavira to 468 BC There are other traditions also about the years of death of Mahavira and the Buddha. | | | Mahavira said: "The son of Mankha, Mankhali, thinking himself a Jina though he is not a Jina, Goshala is a house of deceit. |
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http://www.jainworld.com/jainbooks/images/18/Life_of_Vardhamana_Mahavira.htm
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| | The Teachings of Lord Mahavira |
| | Mahavira stated clearly that religion does not mean mere rituals and dogmas. | | | The significant achievement of Tirthankar Mahavira in the spiritual field was the upholding of the concept of Karma in place of the creator God. | | | Jainism is a living religion propounded by Lord Mahavira, being practiced by lakhs of people even today. |
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http://www.splendourindia.org/splen_aug2002/mahavira.htm
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| | Lord Mahavira was son of Ksatriya Siddhartha and Trishla of Kundapura (or Kundgrama), the northern borough of Vaisali. | | | This posture of yoga or meditation is peculiarly Jain. | | | Parshvanatha attained nirvana in his hundredth year, some 25O years before the nirvana of Mahavira in 777 B.C. MAHAVIRA (VARDHAMANA), is known as the Niganth Natputta to the Buddhists. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/jainism/database/BOOK/jaincltr.doc
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| | ASCETIC LIFE OF MAHAVIRA |
| | Mahavira’s idea of tapas was that of self-restraint with regard to the body, speech and mind; in his view, austerities had to be inward as well as outward, and fasting, absolute chastity and unmitigated meditation were its several forms. | | | The Jaina books mention that Gosala approached Mahavira with a request that he may be adopted as his disciple, but that Mahavira declined his request, presumably because he at once sensed the great difference between their temperaments. | | | But Mahavira was now giving a new meaning to the term, which conflicted with all its prevailing notions and which raised the practice of tapsaya to a spiritual height, unattained and not even intended to be attained, by any of the existing parivrajaka orders. |
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http://www.jainworld.com/jainbooks/images/26/ASCETIC_LIFE_OF_MAHAVIRA.htm
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Jain History |
| | Mahavira was originally born as Vardhamana in north east India in 599 BCE (that's the traditional date but some modern scholars prefer 540 BCE, or even later). | | | According to tradition Mahavira is said to have established a community of 14,000 monks and 36,000 nuns before he died. | | | Mahavira is only this world's most recent tirthankara (and will be the last one in this age). |
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| | Mahavir Jayanti India, The birthday of Lord Mahavira is observed by both the Digambra (Sky-clad) and Svetambra ... |
| | Mahavira, the great teacher and the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism was contemporary of Lord Buddha. | | | Mahavira underlined the importance of austerity and complete non-violence as the essential means of spiritual evolution and salvation. | | | The birthday of Lord Mahavira is observed by both the Digambra (Sky-clad) and Svetambra (White-clad) Jains on the 13th day of the bright half of the Chaitra month (March-April)... |
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http://www.4to40.com/4to40.com_non_ssl/discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_festivals_mahavirjayanti
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| | Kamat's Potpourri: Glossary: Mahavira |
| | Mahavira Vardhamana (6th century B.C.) Proponent of the Jain religion which emphasizes non-violence and sacrifice. |
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http://www.kamat.org/glossary.asp?WhoID=68
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| | Jainism: An Introduction |
| | Mahavira was the son of a minor ruler in northeast India. | | | Although Mahavira taught that there is no personal God and forbid worship and prayer, his followers worship him and pray to him. | | | Mahavira declared, "Women are the greatest temptation in the world." Generally all Jains seek to follow the first three vows as much as possible. |
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| | OMNI: The Sublime Message of Mahavira |
| | Mahavira, a scion of the princely family of Licchavi, the son of King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala, was born in 599 B.C. There is slight variation regarding certain incidents in Mahavira's life between the Digambara and Svetambara tradition. | | | Mahavira preached in Ardhamagadhi, the language of the people, and his spoken words can be discerned in Thananga, esp. in Thananga 4. | | | Mahavira was not only "the most versatile thinker we know of in ancient India" but also was a bold religious innovator and a fearless reformer. |
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Jainism |
| | The word for word teaching of Mahavira was recorded in the sacred text known as the Purvas which was lost after the death of the ascetic Badrabahu, the last of the scripturally omniscient ones. | | | The king of the gods, Sakra, did not feel that Mahavira should be born to a low caste woman, however, and Mahavira was transplanted into the womb of a ksatriya (warrior caste) woman. | | | Mahavira, the tirthankara of the current age had come to teach the way to enlightenment. |
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| | Mahavira and Jainism by Sanderson Beck |
| | Breaking the tradition of speaking in Sanskrit, Mahavira spoke in the Ardhamagadhi dialect, and all the Jaina Agama scriptures are written in Ardhamagadhi. | | | His doctrine was called Eternalism by Mahavira and the Buddha, who both considered it another theory of non-action. | | | Hearing of it and approaching Mahavira, Gosala tried to explain to him that he was no longer his disciple, because he was a different soul, who had entered Gosala's body and founded a new religion. |
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| | Reaction and Rebellion: Buddhism and Jainism |
| | Mahavira continued his teachings for a number of years accompanied by a band of naked monks. | | | After an extended period of meditation, Mahavira attained full enlightenment and became a kevalin (completed soul), and a jina (conqueror). | | | According to Jain legend, however, Mahavira was the last in line of twenty-four Tirthankaras, or those who had successfully crossed the river of suffering and attained enlightenment. |
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| | OCG Jainism Essay-- Mahavira |
| | Mahavira became an ascetic, renouncing material possessions and family life and, for the next 12 years, wholly devoting himself to the practice of meditation. | | | He taught the presence of soul in all beings, that karma binds the soul in ignorance and suffering, and the importance of nonviolence or ahimsa to overcoming karma. | | | According to tradition, Mahavira attained final liberation from the body in 527 BCE at age seventy-two. |
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| | Mahavira - Mahavira Spiritual leader of Jainism Born: 599 B.C. Mahavira lived the life of a wealthy Indian... |
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| | IslamWeb - Jainas: False Legendary Indian Religion |
| | Mahavira and his followers denied the divine origin of the Veda (Hindu sacred books) and rebelled against the practice of taking life prevalent in the Vedic animal sacrifice. | | | Jainism (the name derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "follower of the Jina, or conqueror") was established by Vardhamana, who is known as Mahavira ("Great Hero"), in the sixth century B.C.E. Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha and was born in the same area, the lower Gangetic Plain. | | | According to Jainas, Mahavira was the son of a chieftain of the Kshatriya (military or ruling) class in about the 6th century BC. |
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| | Jainism - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education |
| | Mahavira organized a brotherhood of monks, who took vows of celibacy, nudity, self-mortification, and fasting. | | | Thus released from the rule of karma, the total consequences of past acts, the soul attains nirvana, and hence salvation. | | | Jaina tradition teaches that a succession of 24 tirthankaras (saints) originated the religion. |
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| | Mahavira 24th Tirthankara of Jainism his teachings and essence |
| | Jainism is not a religion and the followers of Mahavira and Jainism beliefs are never referred to as following Mahavirism. | | | Mahavira was the one who bared it all in the end. | | | Mahavira came about 1000 years after the advent of Lord Krishna who gave to the humanity the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. |
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| | Mahavira Jain |
| | Mahavira, a great teacher of Jainism, lived in the same time as Buddha did. | | | Mahavira became aware of the theft, but he didn’t say a word to him and taught him a lesson. | | | He was declared as the highest Siddha, which is known as the Tirthankara, who obtained the five kinds of knowledge and has been a teacher here on earth. |
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| | Mahavira |
| | Mahavira was, soon after, divinely transferred to the womb of Trishala, who also had the same fourteen prophetic dreams. | | | Mahavira preached that right faith (samyak-darshana), right knowledge (samyak-jnana), and right conduct (samyak-charitra) together will lead one towards liberation. | | | The traditional Jaina date for Mahavira's birth is 599 BC. |
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| | Meridian Magazine :: Ideas and Society: Mahavira the “Great Hero,” Founder of Jainism |
| | While ordinary Jains follow the basic ethical teachings of Mahavira, elite Jain monks strive for ultimate spiritual perfection by taking the Five Great Vows: 1- harm no living thing, 2- speak and think the truth, 3- do not take what is not given, 4- chastity, and 5- renunciation of the material world. | | | Although originally a Hindu, Mahavira rejected Hindu castes, sacrifices and scriptures. | | | A minority, but very important religion of India is Jainism, founded by a contemporary of the Buddha, the great sage Vardhamana Jnatrputra, known as Mahavira, or the “Great Hero” (599-527 BC). |
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| | Manas: Religions, Mahavir |
| | Mahavira, most likely born around 540 BC, was a Kshatriya of high Licchavi tribal birth. | | | However, only two of these 'sects' were to endure, namely Buddhism and Jainism. | | | Important places of pilgrimage were to develop among the Jainas, among which Mt. Abu in Rajasthan and Sravanabelogola are prominent. |
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| | Culture Course Vol - III - Mahavira ( Page 3 ) |
| | Mahavira made no difference between one caste andanother. | | | As a result of his tapas, all hisweaknesses dropped away and Mahavira got spiritual powers. | | | He took many disciples from the lower castes. |
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| | HereNow4U Edition 2 - Bhagavan Mahavira - 3.03 – Emancipation Of A Slave-Girl |
| | The king and the minister tried their best to persuade Bhagavan Mahavira to accept food but in vain. | | | This orgy of violence continued for centuries together in the name of custom, religion and fate. | | | When Sugupta came home to lunch, he asked his wife the reason of her sadness. |
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| | THE SPEAKING TREE<BR>Mahavira's Thoughts On Economics- The Times of India |
| | Mahavira said that the one who rejects the people and the world, rejects his own existence; and the one who rejects his own existence rejects the existence of the world. | | | He said: âDo not reject the existence of the world and do not reject your existence as well. | | | But to live, violence cannot be given up entirely. |
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| | Mahavira on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The beginnings of Buddhism: Ian Mabbett considers how Buddhism, while preaching the rejection of societys, simultaneously became a popular religion. | | | An Indian Mahavira Buddha shows off jewelry that Claudia Morgan wears for special occasions. | | | RAVEENDRAN Agence France Presse 04-15-2003 Followers of the Jain religion greet Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi (R) on the occasion of Lord Mahavira's birth anniversary celebrations in New Delhi, 15 April 2003. |
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| | Mahavira (or Mahaviracharya meaning Mahavira the Teacher) was of the Jaina religion and was familiar with Jaina mathematics. | | | With the help of the accomplished holy sages, who are worthy to be worshipped by the lords of the world... | | | In the introduction to the work Mahavira paid tribute to the mathematicians whose work formed the basis of his book. |
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http://www.educ.fc.ul.pt/icm/icm2003/icm14/Mahavira.htm
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| | Jain Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Like those of the Buddha, Mahavira’s doctrines were formulated as a reaction to and rejection of the Brahmanism (religion based on the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas and Upanisads) then taking shape. | | | According to its own traditions, the teachings of Jainism are eternal, and hence have no founder; however, the Jainism of this age can be traced back to Mahavira, a teacher of the sixth century BCE, a contemporary of the Buddha. | | | Mahavira himself, and other great Jain saints, are said to have died this way. |
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| | Mahavira Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Mahavira was a contemporary of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha. | | | Being the son of King Siddartha (Siddartha Guatama) and Queen Trisala, he lived the life of a prince; but at the age of thirty, he left his family, gave up his worldly possessions (over the course of a year), and spent twelve years as an ascetic. | | | At one point, it is said that Mahavira had more than 400,000 followers. |
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| | Mahavira |
| | At the age of eight he observed the twelve vows of Ahimsa, etc. He was obedient to his parents and served them with great faith and devotion. | | | It is claimed that in each half-cycle, twenty-four Tirthankaras, at long intervals, preach anew the doctrines. | | | Mahavira was the twenty-fourth, and like the others, is claimed to have been omniscient. |
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| | LookSmart Religions - Best results for "Jainism" |
| | BECK index Mahavira and Jainism Parshva Mahavira Jainism This chapter has been published in the book INDIA & Southeast Asia to 1875. |
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| | History of Jainism after Mahavira |
| | At the same time, when Bhadrabahu was in the south with his followers, a group of monks remained in the north, facing the famine, under the leadership of Sthulabhadra. | | | For a century or so after the passing away of Mahavira, Jainism remained an insignificant sect with no great following worth speaking. | | | He said to have diluted some of the teachings of Mahavira as compromise, in view of the distress and confusion caused by the severity of the famine. |
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| | Diwali |
| | For on this occasion we celebrate the Nirvana of Lord Mahavira who established the dharma as we follow it. | | | Thus during the krashNa of kartika month, during the svati nakshatra, on the night of the 14th (dawn of the amavasya), lord Mahavira became a Siddha. | | | Kalpasutra mentions that the King Chetaka of Vaishali with several confederate kings, had a great lightning of lights, since they said: |
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| | Mahavira’s Economics |
| | It is on the basis that the worldly life is lived. | | | Purity of means is the basis of Mahavira’s economic theory. | | | Only when the edifice of regulated wishes is erected on this foundation, man would be able to live in happiness and peace. |
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| | Temple of Mahavira |
| | According to the Digambar school of Jainism, Lord Mahavira was born in the year 615 BC, but the Swetambaras believe that He was born in 599 BC. | | | Both sects however agree that he was the son of Siddhartha and Trisala. | | | Astrologers intepreting these dreams, stated that the child would be either an emperor or a Teerthankar. |
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| | Mahavira summary |
| | Mahavira was an Indian mathematician who extended the mathematics of Brahmagupta. |
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| | References for Mahavira |
| | B Datta, On the relation of Mahavira to Sridhara, Isis 17 (1932), 25-33. | | | B Datta, On Mahavira's solution of rational triangles and quadrilaterals, Bull. | | | G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). |
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| | Brand New Dad - Baby Name Meanings - Mahavira |
| | Brand New Dad is an online community and resource center for New and Expectant Fathers, just like you! | | | Personalized for Mahavira - Tred Avon Baby Cup | | | Brand New Dad » Cool Tools » Baby Names » Baby Names Starting With The Letter M » Mahavira |
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