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Mahavira

Index: El hombre en el umbral, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 615.
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Vardhamana or Jina, Jain god, perhaps based on a historical figure who organized the Jain religion

Fishburn and Hughes: "The title given to Vardhamäna, the last of the twenty-four legendary patriarchs and founders of Jainism, a religion widespread in west India. Jainism conceives the universe as infinite and formed as a slender human figure with legs apart and arms akimbo surrounded by three layers of atmosphere. Mahavira preached severe asceticism, which involved renunciation of violence and all physical pleasures and respect for all living and non-living things." (122-23)