WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Mahavira was born in the early part of the 6th century BCE into a royal Kshatriya Jain family in ancient India. His mother’s name was Trishala and his father’s name was Siddhartha. They were lay devotees of Parshvanatha.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mahavira, also known as Vardhamana, was Jainism’s 24th Tirthankara. He was the spiritual heir of Parshvanatha, the 23rd Tirthankara. He was a prince, the son of King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala, both of whom belonged to the Lichchhavis’ Kshatriya (warrior) caste.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mahavira was a Kshatriya prince of the Lichchhavis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vardhamana Mahavira was born in 599 BCE at Kundagrama near Vaishali. His mother was a Lichchavi princess named Trishala and Siddhartha, his father, was a ruler of the Nata, or Jnatri clan.