Mahavira
Americannoun
noun
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For Jains, it's about the moment Jainism founder Lord Mahavira reached a state of being known as Moksha, or eternal bliss.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, was born about 599 B.C. and died in 527 B.C.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Mahavira believed that everything in the universe has a soul and so should not be harmed.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Both Buddha and Mahavira recognised no such restrictions, though they did not refuse reverence to the Brahman as a man of special learning.
From India, Old and New by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
The other is the place in the same part of the country where the body of Mahavira, one of the twenty-four lawgivers, was burnt about six centuries before Christ.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh
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