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Mahavira, also known as Vardhamana was the Twenty-fourth and last Tirthankara of Jainism. He was born in Kundagram near Vaishali in Bihar in the second half of the sixth century BC. In the Jain tradition, a Tirthankara is an enlightened soul who is born as a human being and attains perfection through intense meditation.

Sunyawad does not belong to Jainism because this technique belongs to disciples and Bhikkhus of Buddha. Sunyawad is the philosophy of emptiness. 

Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire. He accepted Jainism and became a monk. He gave up all his wealth and power. He went to Deccan region with Jain monks. He performed Sallekhana - which is a Jain religious ritual of peacefully welcoming death by fasting.

Mahavira was the twenty fourth and last Jain Tirthankaras.  According to the Jain philosophy, a Tirthankara is an enlightened soul who is born as a human being and attains perfection through intense meditation. Mahavira travelled throughout the India to teach Jainism.

Mahavira was the last of the twenty fourth Tirthankara of Jainism.Tirthankaras means ford maker.Mahavira taught the observance of the following vows Ahima - non-violence , Satya - truth , Asteya - non-stealing , Brahmacharya - chastity,Aparigraha - non-attachment is necessary to spiritual liberation.

Kharavela patronized Jainism. Kharavela was king of Kalinga from Mahameghavahana dynasty or Chedi dynasty. From the Hathigumpha inscription, it came to known that Kharavela was a follower of Jainism. 

The three jewels of Jainism are also known as three gems and three refuges. They are different from the three jewels of Buddhism. They constitute the core practice of Jainism. They are:

1. Right to faith: This doesn't mean believing what you're told, but means seeing things properly, and avoiding preconceptions and superstitions that get in the way of seeing clearly.
2. Right knowledge: This means having an accurate and sufficient knowledge of the real universe.
3. Right conduct: This means living your life according to Jain ethical rules, to avoid doing harm to living things and freeing yourself from attachment and other impure attitudes and thoughts.

Jainism was the  religion developed in India along side Buddhism around the sixth century BCE against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism. It teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live lives of harmlessness and renunciation. It is a religion of self-help which believes that liberation is achieved by eliminating all karma from the soul.

Mahavira was born at Vaishali. He was the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism. He was the son of king Siddharth of kundagrama and Queen Trishala. 

Besides Hinduism untouchability was observed in Jainism. The people who are born in lower castes they are considered as impure and untouchable. By the upper-class people, they are restricted to enter in the same temples, drink water from wells, and also not allowed to eat from the same stalls etc. In this way, they are discriminated from the mainstream.