Mahavir Jayanti 2022: 14 April

Category : Important Days Published on: April 16 2022

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Mahavir Jayanti is a birthday celebration for Mahavir or Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankar in Jainism.
It is celebrated on the 13th day of the Hindu month of Chaitra which usually falls in late March or early April in the Gregorian calendar.
Mahavira, known originally as Vardhamana, was born in either 599 BC or 615 BC.
He was born as the son of to King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala.
Mahavir believed in a preached ahimsa or non-violence, satya (truth), asteya (non-stealing), brahmacharya (chastity) and aparigraha (non-attachment). Mahavir’s teachings were put together by his main disciple, Indrabhuti Gautama.

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