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Mahavira
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Mahavira: see Jainism Jainism (jī`nĭzəm) [i.e., the religion of Jina], religious system of India practiced by about 5,000,000 persons.
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Mahavira

 orig. Vardhamana

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Mahavira enthroned, miniature from the Kalpa-sutra, 15th-century western Indian school; in …
(credit: Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
(born traditionally c. 599, Kshatriyakundagrama, India—died traditionally 527 BCE, Pavapuri) Indian reformer of the Jain monastic community, last of the 24 Tirthankaras, or saints, who founded Jainism. Born into the warrior caste, he renounced the world at age 30 for a life of extreme asceticism. He had no possessions, not even rags to cover his body or a bowl for alms or food, and after 12 years he attained kevala, the highest stage of perception. An advocate of nonviolence and vegetarianism, he revived and reorganized Jain doctrine and established rules for its monastic order. His followers made five vows of renunciation (see Jain vrata).



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The isolates designated as MHRC were from pulmonary TB patients who sought treatment at the Mahavir Hospital, Hyderabad, between 2000 and 2002.
Mahavir Tyagi cited in Syed Abulbasan Ali Nadvi, Muslims in India, 3rd edition, (Lucknow: Academy of Islamic Research and Publications, 1980), p.
Officials in Gujarat state said the decision to ban nonvegetarian meals in the state-run guesthouses, effective May 1, has been instituted to pay homage to Lord Mahavir, who founded Jainism in the sixth century B.
 
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