Jainism

Indian religion

8 dated entries naming Jainism, drawn from 8 separate years between 600 BCE and 1901 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century BC

  • 600 BCELord Mahavir, the last and 24th Tirthankar, of the ancient Indian religion, Jainism was born.source
  • 599 BCE599 BC—Birth of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (died 527 BC)source
  • 527 BCE527 BC—Jain Tirthankara Mahavira attains Moksha, according to the Swetambara Tradition.source

3rd century BC

  • 297 BCEChandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola, near Mysore, to live in the way of Jains.source

10th century

  • 982The Indian Rashtrakuta Dynasty ends as its last ruler Indra IV commits Sallekhana (the Jain religious practice of voluntarily starving oneself to death).source

11th century

  • 1088November 7 – Hemachandra, Indian Jain poet and polymath (d. 1173)source

19th century

  • 1867November 9 – Shrimad Rajchandra, prominent Indian Jain philosopher, scholar, poet & spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)source

20th century

  • 1901April 9 – Shrimad Rajchandra, Indian Jain philosopher, scholar and poet, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1867)source

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