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According to Jain texts, the 22nd tirthankara Neminatha lived about 84,000 years ago and was the cousin of Krishna. [1] The two main sects of Jainism, the Digambara and the Śvētāmbara sects, likely started forming around the 1st century CE, and the schism was complete by about the 5th century CE. [2]
Shreyansanatha was among the twenty Jain tirthankaras who attained moksha in Sametshikhar. [73] Sarnath has been an important pilgrimage site for Jains for centuries. [74] A 17th-century Jain manuscript describes a Jain temple in Varanasi as being located close to "a famous Bodisattva sanctuary" at a place called dharmeksā. This Sanskrit word ...
Shreyansanath was the eleventh Jain Tirthankara of the present age (Avasarpini). [2] According to Jain beliefs, he became a Siddha – a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Shreyansanatha was born to King Vishnu and Queen Vishna at Simhapuri, near Sarnath in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His birth date was the twelfth day of the Falgun ...
Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, [1] is an Indian religion.Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha ...
Chandraprabha was the eighth Jain Tīrthankara of the present age . [2] He was born to King Mahasena and Queen Lakshmana Devi at Chandrapuri, [3] Varanasi on 12th day month Pausa in the Ikshvaku clan. [4] [2] [5] [6] Nine months before the birth of Chandraprabha, Queen Lakshmana Devi dreamt the sixteen most auspicious dreams. [7]
Jainism is an ancient Indian religion belonging to the śramaṇa tradition. It prescribes ahimsa (non-violence) towards all living beings to the greatest possible extent. The three main teachings of Jainism are ahimsa, anekantavada (non-absolutism), aparigraha (non-possessiveness).
Neminatha is mentioned as the youngest son of king Samudravijaya and queen Shivadevi of the Yadu lineage, [3] [4] born at Sauripura (Dvaraka). [17] He is believed to have become fond of animals in his early life due to being in a cattle-herding family. Jain legends place him in the Girnar-Kathiawad (in Saurashtra region of modern-day Gujarat).
Mary is also called a "Chosen One"; [226] a "Purified One"; [226] a "Truthful one"; [227] her child conceived through "a Word from God"; [228] and "chosen you above the women of the worlds(the material and heavenly worlds)". [226] The Quran relates detailed narrative accounts of Maryam (Mary) in two places, and . These state beliefs in both the ...