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The origins of Jainism are obscure. [9] [10] The Jains claim their religion to be eternal, and consider Rishabhanatha the founder in the present time-cycle, who lived for 8,400,000 purva years. [11] Rishabhanatha is the first tirthankara among the 24 tirthankaras. [12] [11] Different scholars have had different views on the origin. [citation ...
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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 ...
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Rishabhanatha is known by many names including Adinatha, Adishwara, Yugadeva and Nabheya. [10] Ādi purāṇa, a major Jain text records the life accounts of Rishabhanatha as well as ten previous incarnations according to the Digambara tradition. [18]
Sthānakavāsī is a sect of Jainism founded by a merchant named Lavaji about 1653 CE that do not pray to any statue. [57] The sect is essentially a reformation of the one founded on teachings of Lonka. [58] Sthānakavāsīs reject all but thirty-two of the Śvetāmbara canon. Terapanth is another reformist religious sect under Śvetāmbara Jainism
The earliest layer of Jain literature on cosmology and universal history pivots around two jinas: the Adinatha (Rishabhanatha) and Mahavira. Stories of Parshvanatha and Neminatha appear in later Jain texts, with the Kalpa Sūtra the first known text. or depth, and the brief descriptions of the tirthankaras are largely modelled on Mahavira. [ 18 ]
His birth date was the fifth day of Shravan Shukla of the Jain calendar. Balarama and Krishna , who were the 9th and last Baladeva and Vasudeva respectively, were his first cousins. Neminatha, when heard the cries of animals being killed for his marriage feast, freed the animals and renounced his worldly life and became a Jain ascetic.