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A Little... Jain religion is famous for its principles of non violence, non accumulation and subjectiveness.
Soul has no beginning. The relationship between soul and Karma has also no beginning. Soul can get liberation from Karma. All these matters are very nicely narrated in the Jainism.
In Jain religion because of ignorance there is one misbelief amongst Jain multitude that Shri Mahaveer Swami is the founder of Jain religion.
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There are twenty three tirthankars who became 'Arihant' and achieved Salvation before God Mahāveer.
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Jainism displays unique calculation of time.
One circular time cycle consists of twenty kotākoti (one crore x one crore) sāgaropam i.e ten kotākoti sāgaropam of Avasarpiņi and ten Kotākoti sāgaropam of Utsarpiņi.
Avasarpiņi=Descending Time Cycle Utsarpiņi=Ascending Time Cycle
In this avasarpiņi Respected God Ādināth was the first and foremost Tirthankar. And afterwards other twenty three tirthankars came into existence.
Out of these twenty four tirthankars 16" God; God Shāntināth, 17th God; God Kunthunāth and 18" God; God Arnāth were the soverigns in the same birth..
The Gujarati edition of The Characters of 24 Tirthankar was written on the basis of wellknown book "Trishashthi Shalākā Mahāpurush Charita'. In the recent culture
of convent, it was necessary to translate the characters of twenty four tirthankar in
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