Auspicious dreams are often described in texts of Jainism which forecast the virtue of children. Their number varies according to different traditions...
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attained moksha. In a Jain legend, Yasasvati Devi, senior-most queen of Rishabhanatha (first Jain tirthankara), saw four auspicious dreams one night. She...
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Chandragupta Maurya (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
confused to be the same in some Digambara legends. Scholar of Jain studies and Sanskrit Paul Dundas says the Svetambara tradition of Jainism disputes the ancient...
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In Jainism, ahiṃsā (Ahimsā, alternatively spelled 'ahinsā', Sanskrit: अहिंसा IAST: ahinsā, Pāli: avihinsā) is a fundamental principle forming the cornerstone...
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Akshaya Tritiya (redirect from Akshaya Tritiya in Jainism)
as an auspicious day by Hindus and Jains in India; it signifies the "third day of unending prosperity". Akshaya Tritiya is considered auspicious by Hindus...
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Trishala (category 6th-century BC Indian Jains)
24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and wife of the Gaṇa Mukhya, Siddhartha of Kundagrama, of present-day Bihar. She finds mention in the Jain texts. Trishala was...
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Mahavir Janma Kalyanak (category Jain festivals)
of Jainism Lord Mahavira Sayings The Significance of Mahavira Janma Kalyanak Diwali (Jainism) Jain rituals Jain festivals Kshamavani God in Jainism Parshvanatha...
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Śvetāmbara (redirect from Śvetāmbara Jainism)
biographies such as how many auspicious dreams their mothers had when they were in the wombs.Digambaras believe it is 16 dreams while Śvetāmbaras believe...
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in the Jain religion. This golden chamber of the temple uses 1,000 kg of gold to carve out a depiction of Ayodhya. Kurt Titze, in his book, "Jainism:...
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Rishabhanatha (redirect from Ikshvaku (Jainism))
tirthankara (Supreme preacher) of Jainism. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain cosmology, and called a "ford...
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Tirthankara (redirect from Jain Chaubisi)
Men's View on Jainism". Jainism Literature Center. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021. Champat Rai Jain 1930, p. 78...
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Marudevi (category Jainism and women)
Tīrthankara's soul in the mortal body is celebrated as Garbha Kalyānaka At this time, Queen Marudevi dreamt fourteen auspicious dreams (Śvetāmbara belief)...
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articles related to Jainism. What links here is a special page for finding related articles (it is not entirely accurate though, enter Jainism for example, and...
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Bruhn, Jainism: a pictorial guide to the religion of non-violence, p. 264 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jain temples. List of Jain temples in India...
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religious festivals in Jainism. Some of them are associated with five auspicious life events of Tirthankara known as Panch Kalyanaka. Jains celebrate many...
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In Jainism, Ambika (Sanskrit: अम्बिका, Odia: ଅମ୍ବିକା Ambikā "Mother") or Ambika Devi (अम्बिका देवी Ambikā Devī "the Goddess-Mother") is the yakshini "dedicated...
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(sky-clad) is one of the two main sects of Jainism. This sect of Jainism rejects the authority of the Jain Agama compiled at the Vallabhi Council under...
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for the large Jain community in the United Arab Emirates and is the only Śvetāmbara Jain temple in Bur Dubai, where most of the Jains reside. The temple...
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Digambara (redirect from Digambara Jainism)
arisen in response to Hinduism, Ājīvikas, and Buddhism, rather than purely from within Jainism. Nalini Balbir, another renowned scholar of Jainism, has...
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Shantinatha (redirect from Shantinath Jain temple)
Jainism in the present age (Avasarpini). According to traditional accounts, he was born to King Vishvasena and Queen Aćira of the Ikshvaku dynasty in...
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Parshvanatha (category Indian Jain monks)
(Ford-Maker of Dharma) of Jainism. Parshvanatha is one of the earliest Tirthankara who is acknowledged as a historical figure. The Jain sources place him between...
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Karma (category Jain philosophical concepts)
entity to manage them. (absence of the exogenous 'Divine entity' in Jainism) Jainism advocates that a soul attracts karmic matter even with the thoughts...
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Jain sculptures or Jain idols are the images depicting Tirthankaras (teaching gods). These images are worshiped by the followers of Jainism. The sculpture...
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Anekantavada (category Jain philosophical concepts)
which, according to Jainism, "recognizes substances but not process", and Buddhism, which "recognizes process but not substance". Jainism, on the other hand...
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Chandraprabha (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
Arihant (Jainism) God in Jainism Jainism and non-creationism Some texts refer to the place as Mount Sammeta. This place is revered in Jainism because 20...
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Simandhar (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
Satyaki. While pregnant with Simandhar, Satyaki had a sequence of auspicious dreams indicating that she would give birth to a Tirthankara. Simandhar was...
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sixteen auspicious dreams of Shantinatha's mother. The carvings are painted in a variety of colours. Three more Vedis exist in the Shantinath Jain Teerth...
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Nabhi (category Jainism stubs)
social polity. Marudevi, queen of king Nabhi, saw the 14 auspicious dreams. When she shared her dreams with the king, he explained that she will give birth...
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an invisible force in Hinduism, whereas in Jainism it is a form of particulate matter which can adhere to the soul. As per Jainism, the consequence of...
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Suparshvanatha (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
near Jain ghat, Varanasi Suparshvanatha Basadi, Shravanabelagola Wikimedia Commons has media related to Suparshvanatha. God in Jainism Arihant (Jainism) Jainism...
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