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Jainism

Indian religion

9 dated entries naming Jainism, drawn from 9 separate years between 777 BCE and 1586 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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8th century BC

  • 777 BCE777 BC—Death of Pārśva or Pārśvanātha (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism.source

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
  • 569 BCE569 BC—The 24th Jain Tirthankara, Mahavira, takes Diksha.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 (died 1173)source

16th century

  • 1586Banarasidas, Shrimal Jain businessman and poet (died 1643)source

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