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Chakravarti (emperor conquering the world) and our countrybearsits name“Bharatvarsha" after the name of this emperor Bharat.
There after 23rdTirthankar of the Jains was Neminath who was the nearest cousin of Shri Krishna of Mahabharat fame. He was one of the principal teachers of Shramana tradition of the time and is referred to as “Arishtanemi” in Rigveda and other Hindu scriptures His story is that when he was proceeding for his marriage with princess Rajemati of Mathura he heard the wailing cries of animals who were herded in an enclosure. On inquiry he found that these animals were meant for his marraige feast. This produced in him a thinking process which was based on Sharamana traditions. The result was that he returned back to become a recluse to renounce the worldly affairs and retired to mount “Revat" (modern mount Girnar of Saurastra). He had a great moral influence on the contemporary society and it was under his influence that Lord Krishna gave a revolutionary interpretation to the concept of
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