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	Mahavira and Jainism by Sanderson Beck
		Mahavira criticized Ajita's philosophy for encouraging people to kill, burn, destroy, and enjoy the pleasures of life, but actually Ajita taught people to respect life and honor the living while they are alive rather than death and those who are dead.
		Mahavira was assigned a hut with a thatched roof.
		Mahavira replied that he would live on, but that Gosala would be struck by his own magical power and die from fever in seven days, which came to pass.
	www.san.beck.org /EC8-Mahavira.html (5519 words)

	Indian History - Mahavira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira was born in 599 BC in Kaundinyapura near modern Patna.
		Mahavira was born to a high-ranking family and received an education fit for a nobleman.
		Mahavira was able to rid himself of karma by destroying it and won his soul's salvation by never returning to earth.
	www.indhistory.com /mahavira.html (588 words)

	Mahavira Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira was a contemporary of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha.
		Mahavira was born, on the thirteenth day under the rising moon of Chaitra, in what is now Bihar, India.
		According to the Gregorian calendar, Mahavira was born in April.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mahavira.html (1285 words)

	Mahavira
		Mahavira was born a prince in Bihar, India (where Buddhism also was founded).
		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 believed that the universe was self-sustaining and did not have a beginning.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0412almanac.htm (457 words)

	WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG
		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.
		Mahavira was a great seer who preached the sacred doctrines of truth and Ahimsa.
		Lord Mahavira led an ideal life of penance and renunciation and commended the same to the humanity at large.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/opinions.htm (1137 words)

	Jainism Literature Center - Articles
		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.
		But Mahavira was more accommodating nd compromising and quite willing to understand the point of view of others, primarily because he was preaching an earlier religion, may be for a slightly different order of monks and laymen.
		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.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/article/mahavira1.htm (4547 words)

	WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG
		Mahavira was the twenty-fourth and last of the tirthankaras of his age.
		The reason is that both Mahavira and the Buddha were called Jina by their respective follower, and the term Jaina would thus technically denote both the sects.
		Mahavira was not the founder of Jainism in the sense that the Buddha was the founder of Buddhism.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/origins.htm (6184 words)

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		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.
		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.
		Mahavira or the Nigantha Nataputta of Pali literature was born in Kundagrama45 (Kotiggama) of the Mahavagga, a suburb of Vaisali46, and an important seat of the Jantri Ksatriyas.
	www.ibiblio.org /jainism/database/BOOK/jainbudh.doc (18039 words)

	Mahavira
		Mahavira established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism and was a contemporary of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.
		Mahavira attracted people from all walks of life, rich and poor, kings and commoners, men and women, princes and priests, touchable and untouchable.
		Mahavira was ranked #100 on Michael H. Hart's list of the most influential figures in history.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DMahavira%26type%3Dde (1351 words)

	OCG Jainism Essay-- Mahavira
		According to tradition, Mahavira was born in the year 599 BCE as a prince named Vardhamana, "Increaser of Prosperity," in the town of Vaishali in north India.
		Mahavira became an ascetic, renouncing material possessions and family life and, for the next 12 years, wholly devoting himself to the practice of meditation.
		At age forty-two, Mahavira burned away the remnants of ghati, those karmas that are the residue of past acts and thus obscure the quality of the soul.
	www.pluralism.org /resources/tradition/essays/jain9.php (398 words)

	Life of Vardhamana Mahavira
		But of Mahavira's life as a teacher for nearly thirty years until his death at the age of 72, the sources are reticent.
		Mahavira was Kshatriya of the Jnatri clan and a native of the (Kshatriya) Kundagram, a suburb of the town of Vaishali (near Patna).
		Mahavira said: "The son of Mankha, Mankhali, thinking himself a Jina though he is not a Jina, Goshala is a house of deceit.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/images/18/Life_of_Vardhamana_Mahavira.htm (4501 words)

	Janism
		Mahavira held firmly to such Hindu beliefs as the law of moral retribution or karma and the transmigration of souls after death.
		Mahavira, in the simplicity of his character, was repelled by the extremes of Vedic polytheism.
		Mahavira was regarded as having descended from heaven without sin and with all knowledge.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/03chap02 (2592 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Jain History
		Mahavira is regarded as the man who gave Jainism its present-day form; although this is true only in the widest sense.
		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.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/jainism/history/index.shtml (805 words)

	ASCETIC LIFE OF MAHAVIRA
		Mahavira’s troubles were partly due to his unkempt appearance and partly to his somber silence and look of grim determination.
		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.
		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.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/images/26/ASCETIC_LIFE_OF_MAHAVIRA.htm (3394 words)

	Mahavira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira (or Mahaviracharya meaning Mahavira the Teacher) was of the Jaina religion and was familiar with Jaina mathematics.
		Among topics Mahavira discussed in his treatise was operations with fractions including methods to decompose integers and fractions into unit fractions.
		Mahavira gave special rules for the use of permutations and combinations which was a topic of special interest in Jaina mathematics.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Mahavira.htm (877 words)

	esamskriti- MAHAVIRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira was born of Sidhatha, Raja of Kundalpura, and Queen Trisala, who was known by the name Priya Karni.
		Mahavira was the twenty-fourth, and like the others, is claimed to have been omniscient.
		Mahavira was also known by the names Vardhamana (i.e., ever advancing) and Sanmati.
	www.esamskriti.com /html/spl_inside.asp?cat_name=greatmen&sid=6&count1=2&cid=8&chap=6 (661 words)

	OMNI: The Sublime Message of Mahavira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
	www.omni.omc.ca /archives/000025.html (1765 words)

	Reaction and Rebellion: Buddhism and Jainism
		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.
		Mahavira continued his teachings for a number of years accompanied by a band of naked monks.
		According to Mahavira, all living things are divided into five categories and are delineated by the number of senses they posses.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCINDIA/REACTION.HTM (570 words)

	Mahavira
		Mahavira was, soon after, divinely transferred to the womb of Trishala, who also had the same fourteen prophetic dreams.
		To return to the life story of Mahavira, while the latter was in the womb of his mother, the wealth of the parent household increased.
		Mahavira's renunciation was so great that he allowed, the cattle, to eat the grass on the thatched roof, of his hut, when the grass in the forest had been destroyed, because of intense heat.
	www.dalsabzi.com /Message/mahavira.htm (591 words)

	JAINISM - Hindu Influences
		Mahavira lived in the 6th century B.C.E. and was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha.
		That Mahavira himself is referred to at times as Vaishilika is an evident proof of Mahavira's close connection with this powerful kingdom located in eastern India.
		According to Jaina legend, Mahavira was to be borne by a Brahmin woman but his embryo was transferred to that of a Kshatriya woman, for it was impossible for a person so great to be born "in low families, mean families, degraded families, beggar's families or Brahmin families".
	www.hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/jainism.html (1862 words)

	Jainism: An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira was the son of a minor ruler in northeast India.
		Mahavira married and was the father of a daughter.
		Mahavira declared, "Women are the greatest temptation in the world." Generally all Jains seek to follow the first three vows as much as possible.
	www.ubfellowship.org /archive/readers/601_jainism.htm (912 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Jainism
		Mahavira is considered the founder because he is the tirthankara that has come in an age closest to our own.
		Mahavira was expected to be a great king but after the death of his parents he renounced the world and began to live a life of asceticism.
		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.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/jainism.html (2156 words)

	Mahavir Jayanti India, The birthday of Lord Mahavira is observed by both the Digambra (Sky-clad) and Svetambra ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)...
		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.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_festivals_mahavirjayanti (361 words)

	Mahavira Jain
		For example, Mahavira gave half of his robe to a brahmin named Somadatta, and Somadatta knew that he couldn’t wear the garment without the other half, so he decided to steal it.
		Mahavira became aware of the theft, but he didn’t say a word to him and taught him a lesson.
		Mahavira then became a Siddha, a freed soul of the greatest perfection, when he died.
	www.csuohio.edu /hindu/Jain.htm (590 words)

	The Teachings of Lord Mahavira
		Mahavira stated clearly that religion does not mean mere rituals and dogmas.
		Lord Mahavira says, ‘Without right faith, there is no right knowledge and without right knowledge there is no virtuous conduct.’ Detachment from the objects of worldly pleasures, a balanced state of mind and the feeling of equanimity are considered as right faith or attitude.
		The significant achievement of Tirthankar Mahavira in the spiritual field was the upholding of the concept of Karma in place of the creator God.
	www.splendourindia.org /splen_aug2002/mahavira.htm (1740 words)

	IslamWeb - Jainas: False Legendary Indian Religion
		According to Jainas, Mahavira was the son of a chieftain of the Kshatriya (military or ruling) class in about the 6th century BC.
		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.
		In fact, Mahavira is considered only the most recent in a list of 24 such teachers who brought Jainism into the world during previous great cosmic eras of time.
	www.islamweb.net /ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=40036 (1475 words)

	Mahavira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mahavira lived a life of absolute truthfulness, a life of perfect honesty and a life of absolute chastity.
		Mahavira’s mother said, "My beloved son, you will not be able to bear the severity of the austerities.
		Mahavira distributed all his wealth to the poor with his own hands.
	www.divinelifesociety.org /html/misc/mahavira.shtm (653 words)

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