Mahavira

The 24th Tirthankara who revived and institutionalized Jainism.

Mahavira is revered in Jain traditions as the twenty-fourth Tirthankara and is generally placed in the first millennium BCE, while dates and early biography vary across traditions and scholarship. Traditions associate his teaching community with radical nonviolence, restraint, non-possession, many-sided analysis, karma, liberation, and rigorous ascetic practice.