Mahavir Jayanti | April 16, 2004

April 15th is Mahavir Jayanti, A holy day in Jainism honoring the birthday of Lord Mahavira, their founding father. He lived in the sixth Century BC in northern India, thus living in a similar time and area as Siddharta Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. To Jainas Mahavira is the 24th and last in a series of enlightened teachers who have lived in the present cycle of cosmic history.