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Mahavir Jayanti 2025 Date: Know the history, significance, and celebration of the Jain festival in India
April 10, 2025 7:28 am
Mahavir Jayanti 2025 Date in India: This year will mark the 2623rd birth anniversary of Lord Mahavir.
'Jainism opposes Vedic traditions': After family court denies Jains divorce under Hindu Marriage Act, 28 petitions reach Madhya Pradesh High Court
March 06, 2025 5:57 pm
First Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Dhirendra Singh recently refused to grant divorce to a couple who practice the Jain religion.
New museum in Maharashtra's Pune offers a deeper study of Jain, Indian values
November 06, 2024 10:51 am
Among the highlights are the Rishabhdev statue, drawing attention to 2the first Tirthankar.
UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : History, Culture and Social Issues MCQs on Government of India Act, 1935, Jainism and more (Week 82)
November 05, 2024 11:53 am
Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on History, Culture and Social Issues.
India’s history should be be written from people's perspective: Ganesh Devy
July 30, 2023 7:03 pm
Stating that the people of India are multilingual by nature, Devy said the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, founded by him before moving to Dharwad in Karnataka in 2016, was working on establishing the "evident connections of language pan-Asia".
Jain community protests: What are the issues linked to Jharkhand, Gujarat shrines
January 04, 2023 6:22 pm
Here is how the two controversies erupted and why the Jain protests are being held.
Mahavir Jayanti 2022 Date: History and significance of the Jain festival in India
April 13, 2022 12:49 pm
Mahavir Jayanti 2022 Date in India: Mahavir Jayanti usually falls in March or April, as per the Gregorian calendar. It also marks the 13th 'sud' day of the Chaitra month of the Jain calendar.
Life of a Jain nun: 'In our spiritual journey, we lose relatives, but gain a whole family of sisters'
March 08, 2020 7:37 pm
Travelling in a group of 24 nuns, Jin Prabha says she took the white when she was 20 years old.
Long ago, by the Sarayu
January 12, 2022 2:18 pm
The tussle to stake ownership over Ayodhya, and define it by the Hindu-Muslim question, has concealed the myriad other factors that have gone into making the city and, by implication, India.
In city’s first Jain Diksha ceremony, 44 community members seek monkhood
March 12, 2019 2:02 am
Once inducted, the 44 members —comprising both male and female diksharthis and aged between 12 and 66 years — will lead an ascetic life that will include rules like remaining barefoot and eating once a day.
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