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Tirthankara. In Jainism, a Tirthankara ( IAST: tīrthaṅkara; lit. ' ford -maker') is a saviour and supreme spiritual teacher of the dharma (righteous path). [1] The word tirthankara signifies the founder of a tirtha, [2] a fordable passage across saṃsāra, the sea of interminable birth and death.
The last two tirthankara, Parshvanatha and Mahavira (c. 599 – c. 527 BCE) are considered historical figures. Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha According to Jain texts, the 22nd Tirthankara Neminatha lived about 85,000 years ago and was the cousin of Krishna. Tirthankaras and lineage
Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, 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 ...
Most Indologists and scholars consider all the first 22 of 24 Tirthankaras to be prehistorical, or historical and a part of Jain mythology. [1] [26] However, among Jain writers and some Indian scholars, some of the first 22 Tirthankaras are considered to reflect historical figures, with a few conceding that the inflated biographical statistics ...
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The Gomatheswara at Shravanabelagola 978–993 AD. In Jainism, a tīrtha ( Sanskrit: तीर्थ " ford, a shallow part of a body of water that may be easily crossed") is used to refer both to pilgrimage sites as well as to the four sections of the sangha. A tirtha provides the inspiration to enable one to cross over from worldly engagement ...
Parshvanatha was the 23rd of 24 tirthankaras in Jain tradition. Life before renunciation. He was born on the tenth day of the dark half of the Hindu month of Pausha to King Ashwasena and Queen Vamadevi of Varanasi. Parshvanatha belonged to the Ikshvaku dynasty.
Inscriptions from the many ayagapatas of the Mathura region make clear that puja to the tirthankaras with lay and ascetic involvement was an important dimension to this. The earliest archeological evidence is in the form of a naked headless torso discovered in 1937 near Patna (Bihar), which is called the Lohanipur Torso. This has been dated by ...