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Bahubali / Mahavera

Bahubali / Mahavera
Bahubali (English: One With Strong Arms), a much revered figure among Jains, was the son of Rishabhanatha (the first tirthankara of Jainism) and the younger brother of Bharata Chakravartin. He is said to have meditated motionless for a year in a standing posture (kayotsarga) and that during this time, climbing plants grew around his legs. After his a year of meditation, Bahubali is said to have attained omniscience (Kevala Gyana).


Karkala is known for its 42 ft (13 m) monolithic statue of Gomateshwara Bahubali, which is believed to have been built around 1432 and is the second-tallest statue in the State. The statue is built on an elevated platform on top of a rocky hill.


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 Dinesh
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A magnificent vision of the cosmogonic round is presented in the mythology of Jains. The most Recent prophet and savior of this very anicent Indian sect was Mahavir, a contemporary of the Buddha (sixth century B.C). his parents were already followers of a much earlier Jaina savior-prophet, Parsvanatha, www.wisdomlib.org/definition/parshvanatha who is represented with snakes springing from his shoulders and reputed to have flourished 872-722 ;B.C. Centuries before Parsvanatha, there lived and died the Jain savior Naminatha, anekant.org/history-neminatha-jain-religion declared to havd been a cousin of the beloved Hindu incarnation Krshna. And before him, again, were exactly twenty-oine others, going all the back to Rsabhanatha, jaincosmos.blogspot.com/2009/08/lord-rishabhdev.html who existed in an earlier age of the world. . . . . Rsabhanatha instructed the people in the seventy two sciences (writing, arithmetic, reading of omens, etc.), the sixty four accomplishments of women (cooking, sewing, etc.), and the one hundred arte (poetry, weaving, painting, smithing, barbering, etc); also he introduced them to politics and established kingdom.

The Hero with Thousand Faces
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 Dinesh
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. . . He (Ziegenbalg) did not know that the Sanskrit word ‘sramana’ (“one who strives”) denotes a wandering monks or ascetic in the religious traditions of ancient India and that Mahavir (599-527 B.C.E) the founder of Jainism, and also Gautama Buddha had been leaders of ‘Sramana’ movements. Some such movements shared several of the characteristics mentioned by Zigenbalg: they denied a creator God and some traditional divinities, rejected the Vedas as revealed texts, were by varying degrees critical of the caste system, and opposed some traditional beliefs, sacrifices, rituals, and customs as well as Brahmanic authority. Today we also know that, in the context of Jainism and Buddhism, the world ‘sramana’ had come to signify “Jaina ascetic’ and “Buddhist monk.” ~ Page 110

The Birth of Orientalism
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