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	Tirthankars
		Tirthankar Näm Karma matures in the final life and leads the person to become a Tirthankar after taking Dikshä and observing austerities to destroy all Ghäti (destructive) karmas.
		· Logassa Ujjoyagare (Chaturvishati Stav) Sutra – This sutra is recited in praise of the twenty-four Tirthankars.
		Ganadhars are the chief disciples of the Tirthankars*.
	www.jcnc.org /jainism/Tirthankars.htm (1319 words)

	TIRTHANKAR MAHAVIR and his SARVODAYA TIRTH - (Tirthankar Mahavir and his message of uplift of one and all) describes ...
		The first Tirthankar Risabhadeva was born in the city of Ayodhya from the womb of queen Marudevi, the consort of the 14th Kulakar, king Nabhiraya.
		Since three of the Tirthankars had been world monarchs, the description of their life-story was perhaps exception to contain a separate account of their secular greatness, but since this bears some similarity with that of Bharata who himself was a world monarch, this has been meticulously abandoned to avoid repetition.
		Bhagwan Neminath, the 22nd Tirthankar, was a cousin, of Krishna.
	www.jainism.free-online.co.uk /mhvirtrd.html (6451 words)

	Tirthankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Tirthankar is the founder of a "Tirth", a Jain community which acts as a "ford" across the "river of human misery".
		At the end of his/her human life-span, a Tirthankar achieves liberation ('moksh' or 'nirvan'), ending the cycle of infinite births and deaths.
		The next Tirthankar in our part of the universe will be born at the beginning of the third era of the next (ascending) half cycle of time, in approximately 81,500 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tirthankar (679 words)

	TIRTHANKAR BHAGWAN MAHAVEER
		Tirthankar Mahaveer was the last and the twenty-fourth Tirthankar of this epoch.
		He told her that she was going to be blessed with a son, who would become a Tirthankar and rule over the hearts of the creatures of the three worlds, would propagate the principles of emancipation and would be very fortunate.
		In theite fruition of Tirthankar Namkaram, he got that status and was known as Bhagwan Mahaveer.
	www.jainworld.com /literature/story30.htm (2961 words)

	Mahavir24
		After the salvaation of Rushabhdevji the prospective second Tirthankar Shri Ajitnathji was born to king Jitshatru and queen Vijaya of Ayodhya.
		The fifth Tirthankar Sumatinathji was born to king Megh and queen Mangala of Ayodhya.
		The sixth Tirthankar Padma Prabhu was born in Kaushambi to king Shridhar and queen Suseema.
	www.worldofbiography.com /9097-Mahavir/mahavir24.htm (546 words)

	WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 22nd Tirthankar Neminath was cousin son of Lord Krishna's uncle and is thus a historical figure.
		The 23rd Tirthankar Paraswanth was born at Varanasi in B.C.877.
		The stupa was an early form of structuiral architecture of the Jaina as evidenced by the excavations of Kankali-Tila side at Mathura.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/a_rich.htm (2417 words)

	Aadishwar Bhagvan first Jain Tirthankara!
		Bhagwan Aadinath, the first Tirthankar of the Jain's did not start Jainism as such because Jainism is not a Religion but a way of life.
		From the first to the 23rd Tirthankar, the masses were more busy in earning their livelihood and they had no time for any Religion whatsoever.
		Tirthankars and all God Realized souls are normally born in a Kshatriya family for the only reason that Kshatriyas are fearless people and they can face the truth in its entirety.
	www.vijaykumar.com /first_jain_tirthankara.html (1267 words)

	WELCOME : WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When just one auspicious event of one Tirthankar, can convert a place into a pilgrimage, it will be quite impossible for human intelligence to assess the holiness and power of that pilgrimage where as many as twenty Tirthankars have litup the inextinguishable light of 'nirvana'.
		The tenth Toonk is that of Tirthankar Padmaprabhu.
		The fifteenth Toonk is that of Tirthankar Shree Sheetalnath.
	jainsamaj.org /temples/sikharji.htm (2295 words)

	GODHOOD
		Bhagwan Bahubali, whose tall monolith statue is quite famous, was an Arihanta and the son of Tirthankar Rshabnath-Adinath.
		Prior to Mahavir, (twenty-fourth of recent era), Parshvanath (twenty-third Tirthankar), Arishta Neminath (twenty-second Tirthankar, are said to be cousins and contemporary of Shri Krishna), Naminath (said to be a contemporary of Shri Rama) and other Tirthankars have been known.
		Thus, a Tirthankar is unaffected by the kind or mean actions to him/her by surrounding beings.
	www.jainmeditation.org /pages/godhood.html (792 words)

	Detail of 24th Tirthankars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The eighth Tirthankar of Jainism is Chandra Prabhu.
		The sixteenth Tirthankar of the Jain religion, Shantinath, was born to the King Vishavsen and Queen Achiradevi of Hastinapur.
		He was born in 599 BC at Kshatriya Kund in the democratic republic of Vaishali (Bihar), the son of King Siddharth and Queen Trishla Devi.
	www.terapanth.com /24th_legends.htm (2087 words)

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		This is when a to be Tirthankar’s soul departs from its last life and is conceived in the womb of the mother.
		This is when a to be Tirthankar gives up all his worldly possessions and takes the vows of a monk.
		This is when the Tirthankar dies and leaves this universe and his body forever.
	www.jainuniversity.org /html/faq1.asp (1877 words)

	Shubhlabh.net - 24 Tirthankars
		The individual who has destroyed attachment and aversion; who is absolutely free of fondness and ignorance; who has shed the four vitiating Karmas; namely illusory (Mohaniya), knowledge obstructing (Jnanavaraniya), perception obstructing (Darshanavaraniya), and power hindering (Antaraya); is known as vitarag (the detached one), Jina (the victorious) and Sarvajna or Kewali (the omniscient).
		He is an ordinary soul that born as a human and attains the states of a Tirthankars as a result of intense practices of penance, equanimity and meditation.
		As such, the Tirthankars is not defined as an Avatar (god-incarnate) but is the ultimate pure developed state of the soul.
	www.shubhlabh.net /Tirthankars/index.html (200 words)

	Religions
		Vardhman Mahavira was the 24th Tirthankar or the religious Guru of the Jains.
		According to Jain tradition, Mahavira is the 24th Tirthankar in a series of Tirthankars, stretching back through Parshva (the 23rd) to Rishabha.
		That is why Jains are strictly vegetarian and some of the monks even cover their mouths with a piece of cloth in order to avoid the risk of swallowing an insect by mistake.
	www.tamilstar.com /religions/jainism.shtml (1306 words)

	Jainism - Introduction to Jain Relgion
		Rishabhdev, the first Tirthankar, is mentioned in Rig Veda, the oldest scripture of Hinduism believed to be at least 5000 years old.
		The last of the 24 Tirthankars of this cycle of time was Lord Mahavira.
		Jainism became prominent religion in India at the time of Mahavira, who was born in about 599 B.C. in the town of Vyshali, (in the present day Bihar) in a royal family.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /other_religions/jainism.htm (353 words)

	Attain Self Realization & Internal Peace - Understand Spirituality: Detailed Introduction of Present Living Tirthinkar ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The twenty-four Tirthankars who have departed from this world and no longer exist as Arihants, have become Siddhas.
		As Arihants they proclaimed that in their wake, there would be no more Tirthankars on our planet because of the time-cycle, but that man should strive to meet the present Tirthankar in Mahavideh Kshetra, where Tirthankars are perpetually in existence.
		People have forgotten Lord Mahavir's message to worship the living Tirthankar and so they continue to pay obeisance onlley to the last twenty four Tirthankars on this earth.who no longer exist anywhere in the universe, in the human form.
	www.dadabhagwan.org /lord_simandharswami_detail.html (633 words)

	Pathshala Quiz
		Identify a Tirthankar such that if you change one letter of that Tirthankar's name, you will get another Tirthankar's name.
		Identify a Tirthankar whose cousin is a God in another religion.
		Find 2 Tirthankar's names without the "nath" and "swami" at the end (the puzzle is called a doublet) in the following sentence: I am glad I do not have to work harder than ants.
	members.tripod.com /jain_phoenix/pathshala_quiz.htm (399 words)

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		Arihants have two categories: Tirthankar Ordinarykevali Tirthankar: Immediately after attaining kevaljnana, if a person establishes the fourfold religious order of monks, nuns, sravaks (male laypeople), and sravikas (female laypeople) is known as Tirthankar.
		Jainism believe that Twentyfour Tirthankars are born during eavh descending and asending part of the time cycle in this region (Bharat Kshetra) of the universe.
		Tirthankar is also known as Jina or Nirgrantha.
	www.ibiblio.org /jainism/database/JAINEDU/jaingod.doc (1119 words)

	Mahavir Jayanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He became Jina, the twenty-fourth Tirthankar of the present era.
		As omniscient he knew everything of the past, present and future.
		As the last Tirthankar, he revived the religious order, or Jain Sangh, of monks, nuns, shravaks and shravikas.
	www.twilightbridge.com /festivals/mahavir_jayanti/late.htm (463 words)

	Rishabha (Jain tirthankar) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rishabha Deva or Aadinatha was born more than 5000 years ago estimated near about 3000 B.C.E. He is considered the first Tirthankar of Jainism and referred to with the honorific prefix Lord.The worship of Rishabha Deva is found in Indus Valley Civilization or Harappan Civilization time period.
		According to Jain beliefs, Rishabha was the first Tirthankar of the present age (Avasarpini).
		As a king, he is credited with development of several innovations affecting the society, as transition was being made from a simple to a more complex society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rishabhadeva (743 words)

	The Economic History of India 1857-1947
		Tirthankar Roy, The Economic History of India 1857-1947.
		Teachers of Indian economic history will welcome Tirthankar Roy's Economic History of India 1857-1957.
		Roy provides a chronological survey of the colonial economy by economic sector -- agriculture, small-scale industry, large-scale industry, plantations, mines, banking, and the public sector.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0463.shtml (1089 words)

	Jainism Literature Center - Jain Education
		Jainism believe that Twenty-four Tirthankars are born during each descending and ascending part of the time cycle in this region (Bharat Kshetra) of the universe.
		Generally a Tirthankara is born when the religion is at its depression state.
		Tirthankar is also known as Jina, Arihant, Arhat, Arhant, or Nirgrantha.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~pluralsm/affiliates/jainism/jainedu/jaingod.htm (1185 words)

	indianexpress.com
		But as a filmmaker, Tirthankar has continuously poked fingers, accused, questioned, scorned and had fun at a society that, as far as he is concerned, refused to see beyond the tip of its nose.
		A seemingly conservative lady took her time to accept the fact about her son, but when she went ahead and played the role of Piku’s mother in the film, Tirthankar knew his mother was acting out her acceptance.
		As a continuation of his stress on ‘unconventional’ relationships, Tirthankar has scripted a story where three close friends—one gay (Jojo, played by Anupam Hazra), the other bisexual (Rahul, played by Rupesh Chowdhury) and a lady (Piu, played by Dipannita Chatterjee) who is ‘straight’—decide to live together.
	www.indianexpress.com /sunday/story/12299.html (928 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And she definitely doesn’t know that on one such night when he had gone on a college camping trip with his closest buddies, to whom he had made the mistake of ‘confessing’ his homosexuality, they barged into his room and sexually assaulted him “just to teach him a lesson”.
		Piku is the protagonist of Piku Bhalo Aachhey, a short, 48-minute, Bengali film, directed by Tirthankar Guha Thakurta, a student of Calcutta National Medical College.
		The film, produced by Saathi, an AIDS-awareness group, was completed early last month, and after winning accolades in a short film festival in Bangalore, was shown at Max Muller Bhavan in Calcutta last week.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040706/asp/atleisure/story_3456555.asp (955 words)

	SSRN-Profitability of Trading Strategies on High-Frequency Data, with Trading Costs by Tirthankar Patnaik, Susan Thomas
		TIRTHANKAR C. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
		Patnaik, Tirthankar C. and Thomas, Susan, "Profitability of Trading Strategies on High-Frequency Data, with Trading Costs" (April 28, 2004).
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	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=568363 (293 words)

	SSRN-Intraday Behaviour of Stock Markets: A Study of the Indian Equity Markets by Tirthankar Patnaik, Ajay Shah
		We examine intraday volatility for the index and a select set of stocks in the National Stock Exchange, for it's periodicity, and persistence.
		Patnaik, Tirthankar C. and Shah, Ajay, "Intraday Behaviour of Stock Markets: A Study of the Indian Equity Markets" (May 3, 2004).
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	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=568346 (324 words)

	Fast Breaking Comment by Tirthankar Roy Choudhury and Thanu Padmanabhan
		Fast Breaking Comment by Tirthankar Roy Choudhury and Thanu Padmanabhan
		Tirthankar Roy Choudhury and Thanu Padmanabhan answers a few questions about this month's fast breaking paper in the field of Space Science.
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	www.esi-topics.com /fbp/2005/october05-Choudhury_Padmanabhan.html (530 words)

	DBLP: Niki Pissinou
		Tirthankar Ghosh, Niki Pissinou, Kami Makki: Towards Designing a Trusted Routing Solution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
		Shamila Makki, Niki Pissinou, Tirthankar Bhowmick: LEACH Protocol for Assigning Cluster-Heads Using a Deterministic and Stochastic Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks.
		Makki, Niki Pissinou, Tirthankar Ghosh, Amit Deshpande: Study of Network Performance in a Simulated Network for Optimized Node Degree and Network Cost.
	www.vldb.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pissinou:Niki.html (1376 words)

	TIRTHANKAR MAHAVIR and his SARVODAYA TIRTH - Publisher's note
		TIRTHANKAR MAHAVIR and his SARVODAYA TIRTH - Publisher's note
		We would like to mention a few extracts from the First edition's Preface, as it is worthwhile to do so.
		It is our sincere desire that this book reaches everybody and they broaden the path of their own welfare through its reading.
	www.jainism.free-online.co.uk /mhpblnte.html (589 words)

	JAINPUSHP
		Contact Us The Tirthankars are also called Arihantas.
		Arihantas are those who have attained Tirthankar Näm Karma while the rest of them
		In the life of a Tirthankar the five Kalyanaks are celebrated.
	www.jainpushp.org /tirthankara.htm (219 words)

	Amazon.com: Cloth and Commerce: Textiles in Colonial India: Books: Tirthankar Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) by Tirthankar Roy on page 63, and Back Matter
		De-Industrialization: Social,Cultural, and Political Aspects (International Review of Social History Supplements) by Bert Altena on page 159
	www.amazon.com /Cloth-Commerce-Textiles-Colonial-India/dp/0803993005 (661 words)

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