[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947) › c19.137 # Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.137 Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.137 - **Language:** English ### [c19.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.137) Mahāvīra was thirty years old when with the permission of his elder brother Nandivardhana and other relatives, he renounced the world and with a divine garment (devadussa) left Kundaggāma in the dark of mārga-śīrṣa on the tenth day in winter. Followed by thousands of people, Mahāvīra reached the garden of Nāyasaṇḍavana, which lay in the outskirts of Kundaggāma, to the north-east direction where the renunciation ceremony was performed with great pomp. - [Previous: c19.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.136) - [Next: c19.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.138) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.137) · Pramāṇa