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1 day ago · The list of 12 chakravartin of Avasarpini as per Jainism is as follows. Bharata, son of Tirthankara Rishabhanatha; Sagara, ancestor of Bhagiratha as in the Puranas; Maghava: 306 Sanata Kumara: 306 Tirthankara Shantinatha; Tirthankara Kunthunatha: 308 Tirthankara Aranatha: 308 Subhauma: 308 Padmanabha; Harishena; Jayasena
1 day ago · — Chant of Mahatma Gandhi containing thirteen syllables. It is known as Śrī Rāma Tāraka mantra (lit. ' The Rama mantra for Salvation '). Rama is portrayed in Hindu arts and texts as a compassionate person who cares for all living beings. Rama had three brothers, according to the Balakanda section of the Ramayana. These were Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna. The extant manuscripts of the text describes their education and training as young princes, but this is brief. Rama is portrayed ...
2 days ago · Even at the time that Valmiki composed his epic, two other, very different, tellings of the Rama story existed—one was the Buddhist Dasaratha Jataka, in which Rama and Sita are brother and sister and rule as consorts, and the other the Jain Paumchariya by Vimalasuri, who sets the story in the court of the historical king Srenika and depicts the rakshasas not as demons, but as normal human beings. Each teller of the story of Rama has their own imperatives as does each time, region, language ...
5 days ago · In the Ramayana, Bharata, or Bharat, is the younger brother of Sri Ram and Son of Dasaratha. He symbolizes nobility, selflessness and devotion. When his mother, Kaikeyi, wanted him to be the king of Ayodhya instead of Sri Ram; he refused and rebuked his mother. Bharata performed the last rites of his father who had died of shock at Sri Ram’s ...
2 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · Sri Rama is one of the 63 salakapurushas (great personalities) in Jainism. The various Jaina Ramayanas or other works about the life story and deeds of Lord Ram are interesting and differ here and there only in minor details from Valmiki Ramayana. Rama is called Padma (lotus flower) in Jaina Texts. The various Jaina Puranas and poetic works ...
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5 days ago · Jainism focuses on individual freedom, equality regardless of race, sex, caste and colour, reverence for all life, concern for human and animal welfare and consideration for the environment. Every living being has a soul and all souls are equal. Jain values are based on non-violence and reverence for all life ( ahimsa ), non-attachment to the ...
