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India at Sammed Shikhar (Parswanath Hills), Champapuri and Pavapuri in Bihar. They moved throughout in Bihar, Bengal, Assam, etc., (See Article Series with latest research, titled, “Varan Bhoomi Bengal” by scholar Smt. Lata Bothra in “Titthayar” monthly of Kolkata). Deep research is awaited in the aspect which will reveal these Tirthankaras' impact and influence in whole of North East region from Bihar to Arunachala Pradesh and even Nepal. Numerous historical places of their Viharas, Pada Yatras stand testimony of this and yet much more research is in waiting. Briefly, the impact of these Tirthankaras consisted of not only religious teachings and pure moral life, but also of awareness full trade and agriculture, Animal Protections through vast Gokulas and imbibing of all the 72 and 64 Life Sciences and Arts of Men and Women taught by the First Jain Tirthankara Adinatha Rishabhadeva, the Illustrious Father not only of Chakravarti King Bharata and Mighty Bahubali, but also of Human Culture and Civilisation on Earth.
Implementation of all these Cultural Arts' heritage along with the principles of Ahimsa, Anekanta, Atmajnana, etc., was carried out on large scale uplifting ignorant humanity by Tirthankara Mahaveera, Parswanatha and their predecessors, travelled and wandered all over India, Middle East, Greece and whole world, but beginning from this significant and sacred North East part of Bharatakshetra - India.
Can one imagine, how much this North East direction enjoys importance from Jain Vastu Point of view?
3. The Post Parswanath-Mahaveera times North East part of India till today, (inspite of its little degradation in forms of Animal-sacrifices, Violence, present-day terrorism and the SATI tradition's blots) has preserved very rich Spiritual, Literary, Cultural, Scientific heritage of Indian Culture and Arts. This requires a Vast... Vast description. Only an indication is possible here. How many Luminaries this North-Eastern land has produced in all fields! That too in the present times only, after Saint Madhavdas in Assam and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal...!! From Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar-Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Sri Aurobindo, Bipinchandra Pal, Subhashchandra Bose, Jagdishchandra Basu, Khudiram Bose, Thakurdas Bang, Dhirendra Manjumdar, Jai Prakash Narain and Prabhavati Devi, Babu Rajendra Prasad, Devendranath and Rabindra Nath Tagore, Kshiti Mohan Sen, Nandalal Bose, Bankim Babu, Sharadchandra Chattopadhyay, Sarojini Naidu, Ma Anandamayee, Jagat Sheth, Ganesh Lalwani and K.C. Lalwani, Dr. Amartya Sen, Pankaj Mullik, K.C.Dey, Manna Dey, Pandit Ravishankar, Uday Shankar, Kanan Devi, Jyothika Roy, Suchitra Sen,
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