Vardhaman Mahāvīr

 Vardhaman Mahāvīr - Brief Introduction
'Namāh śri Vardhamāna-e nirdhutakalilātmane'' Sālokānāma trilokānāma yadā-vidyā darpanāyate!

Tr.- I bow to Śri Vardhamāna Mahāvīra who has washed off the impurities of karmic filth from His Soul, [and] In Whose Perception scintillate the three Worlds and the infinity of Space, as in a mirror !

Vardhaman Mahāvīr was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of avasarpini. In Jainism, a tirthankara (maker of the river crossing) is an omniscient teacher who preaches the dharma (righteous path) and builds a ford across the ocean of rebirth and transmigration. Twenty-four tirthankara grace each half of the cosmic time cycle. (See Jain cosmology)