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and laywomen called tirtha (ford). The order is helpful like a ford, to cross the ocean of transmigration. Tirthankara Mahavira, being its maker or establisher, was called tirthankara. Mahavira imparted the knowledge of the threefold nature of reality to his eleven direct principal ascetic disciples and conferred the title ganadhara on them.
The venerable Mahavira left Madhyama-Pava, stopped at various places on the way and eventually arrived in the prosperous city of Rajagruhi. He was giving daily discourses. On hearing the teachings, King Shrenika attained
Bhuiguan Mahasiswanu's
preaching
the jewel of spiritually wholesome inclination and conviction, and Abhayakumara with other householders took the vows of a Jaina householder. The inspiring words of Tirthankara Mahavira awakened King Shrenika's son Meghkumara to the spiritual Truth. Nandishena, son of Shrenika, became
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