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Vardhamana Mahavira Vardhaman Mahavira was the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism. He flourished about 250 years after the death of parsva. He was born in Kundagrama a suburb of Vaisali (modern Muzaffarpur district in Bihar) in 599 B.C. (according to some in 540 B.C.). His father Siddhartha was the head of a Kshatriyadan called the Jantrikas and his mother [...]