HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Swami Vivekananda
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Kirthi Varman
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Vardhamana Mahavira
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None of these
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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: -Rishabhadeva is considered as the first real founder of Jainism. He is the first Tirthankara in Jainism and is also said to have live million years ago.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rishabhanatha is said to be the founder of Jainism of the present Avsarpini (a time cycle) by the different Jain sub-traditions. Jain chronology places Rishabhanatha in historical terms, as someone who lived millions of years ago.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mahavira is regarded as the man who gave Jainism its present-day form; although this is true only in the widest sense. He is sometimes wrongly called “the founder of Jainism". Mahavira is only this world’s most recent tirthankara (and will be the last one in this age).
Detailed explanation-5: -Vardhamana Mahavira, the last Tirthankara was the founder of Jainism. Q.