Vardhamana

[ vahr-duh-mah-nuh ]

nounJainism.
  1. a semilegendary teacher, believed to have died c480 b.c., who reformed older doctrines to establish Jainism in its present form: regarded as the twenty-fourth and latest Tirthankara.

  • Also called Vardhamana Mahavira, Mahavira.

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Vardhamana

/ (ˌvɑːdəˈmɑːnə) /


noun

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