Lord Mahaveer

Lord Mahaveer

Lord Mahavir was born 599 years before Christ in Kundalpur of Vaishali Republic to Kshatriya king Siddhartha and Queen Trishala of the Ikshvaku dynasty in Chaitra Shukla Teras. This Vardhamana later became Mahavir Swami, the last Tirthankara of this period. According to Jain texts, he was born 278 years after the 23rd Tirthankara Parshvanatha attained Nirvana (salvation).