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of its author; its influence spreads and grows. Vardhamana renounced the world at the age of 30. At the age of 42 he obtained omniscience and became arhat. Subsequent to this attainment, Mahavira spent the first rainy season in the village (Vardhamana the modern Burdwän). At the age of 72, he breathed his last at Pāvā in the Malla country in 468 B. C. He was a senior contemporary of Buddha and pre-deceased him.
P. 71. The great kings of the Gangetic plain (even Asoka and his grandson Samprati) were Jaina enthusiasts. During the time of the Guptas, Jainism spread across north India, from Orissa to Mathura. The chiefs and kings of Western India exhibited great zeal for this religion. After the middle ages, it declined but was never totally lost.
P. 72. Śvetāmbaras and the Digambaras.
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