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Message: <blockquote data-quote="තොත්ත බබා" data-source="post: 30886366" data-attributes="member: 366296">Uthum manushyek ta ai ehema karana oone ?? Mahavira (Mahāvīra), also known as Vardhamana (Vardhamāna), was an Indian religious reformer and spiritual leader who is considered to be the 24th and final <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirthankara" target="_blank">Tirthankara</a> (Supreme Preacher) of this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_cosmology" target="_blank">age</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism" target="_blank">Jainism</a>. Although the dates and most historical details of his life are uncertain and varies by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_schools_and_branches" target="_blank">sect</a>, historians generally consider that he lived during the 6th or early 5th century BCE,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDundas200224%E2%80%9325-14" target="_blank">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuiper2010144-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> reviving and reforming a proto-Jain community which had possibly been founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81r%C5%9Bvan%C4%81tha" target="_blank">Pārśvanātha</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDundas200230%E2%80%9331-15" target="_blank">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBasham1951108-16" target="_blank">[16]</a> and Jains consider Mahavira to be his successor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeehs200290-17" target="_blank">[17]</a> The historicity of Mahavira is well-established and not in dispute among scholars.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-18" target="_blank">[18]</a>According to traditional legends and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography" target="_blank">hagiographies</a>, Mahavira was born in the early 6th century BCE to a ruling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshatriya" target="_blank">kshatriya</a> family of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ya" target="_blank">Nāya</a> tribe in what is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar" target="_blank">Bihar</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a>. According to traditional Jain sources like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80c%C4%81r%C4%81%E1%B9%85ga_S%C5%ABtra" target="_blank">Ācārāṅga Sūtra</a>, the Nāyas were followers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parshvanatha" target="_blank">Parshvanatha</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKailash_Chand_Jain199132-19" target="_blank">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDundas200230-20" target="_blank">[20]</a> Mahavira abandoned all worldly possessions at the age of about 30 and left home in pursuit of spiritual awakening, becoming an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism" target="_blank">ascetic</a>. Mahavira practiced intense meditation and severe austerities for twelve and a half years, after which he attained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevala_Jnana" target="_blank">Kevala Jnana</a> (omniscience). He preached for 30 years and attained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha_(Jainism)" target="_blank">moksha</a> (liberation) in the 6th century BCE, although the year varies by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_schools_and_branches" target="_blank">sect</a>. Many historians<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDundas200224-1" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuiper2010144-2" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShah1999-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> now believe his lifetime was later, by as much as one century, than was stated in tradition.</blockquote>

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