HISTORY
JAINISM
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mahavira (Sanskrit: ) also known as Vardhaman, was the 24th tirthankara (supreme preacher) of Jainism. He was the spiritual successor of the 23rd tirthankara Parshvanatha. Mahavira was born in the early part of the 6th century BCE into a royal Kshatriya Jain family in ancient India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 24th and last tirthankara of the present half-cycle was Mahavira Swami Ji (599 BC–527 BC). History records the existence of Mahavira and his predecessor, Parshvanath, the twenty-third tirthankara.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jains believe that there were 23 Tirthankaras before Vardhamana Mahavira, 24th and the last Tirthankara. And according to the Jain belief, an ascetic called Rishabhadeva was the first Tirthankara.