Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s3.1
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c5.s3.1
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c5.s3.1
After Pārśva Mahāvīra became the leader of the Jain community. He was born in Khattiyakundaggāma, a suburb of Vaisālī, in the house of king Siddhattha by his queen Tisalā. Mahāvīra retired from the world at the age of thirty and leading a life of severe asceticism, attained *kevalinship* on the bank of the river Ujjuvāliyā near the town of Jambhiyagāma. Mahāvīra roamed about as a *Tīrthankara* for thirty years, and at the age of seventy-two, after two hundred and fifty years of Pārśva's death, died in Pāvā about 467 B.C.⁵⁰