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Madhyastha
Madya Maha
Mahaalaya Mahaasatta
Mahaavideha
Mahaavira or Mahaaveera or Mahavir
Mahaavrata
Balanced and just toward all; Tatastha; Impartial; Impartiality; Neutrality; Equanimity; Indifference Alcohol
Great Ceremony; Sacrifice; Ceremonial festival Big palace
(1) Universal is-ness; (2) The great existence or existence of universe (3) The laws of nature including spiritual laws Name of a kshetra or region. Twenty Tirthankaras currently exist there, deeming it the most sacred kshetra.
(1) Twenth-fourth Tirthankara in this ara of the time cycle. His name means 'The most courageous one.' Mahavir was an actual historical figure who lived some time between 599-527 BCE. He was a contemporary of another great spiritual teacher--Gautama Sakyamuni--who would come to be known in history as Buddha. According to most accounts, Mahavira was also a high-born member of a warrior caste who renounced the world when he was thirty to pursue a life as an ascetic. His moment of enlightenment came after twelve years of spiritual pursuit. He then gathered twelve disciples around him, and it is through these disciples that his teachings were eventually documented and disseminated. (2) Twenty-fourth tirthankara of the Jainas, a senior contemporary of Gautama Buddha.
(1) A vow that is much stricter than an Anuvrat. Only those who take diksha will take on these vows (i.e. sadhus and sadhvis). There are five mahaavrats- namely ahimsa, anekantvaad, aparigraha, asteya and brahmacharya; (2) Major vows; Monk-vows; Great vows
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