The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1441 page)

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mbara Jains date his life 599–527 BCE (the Digambara hold that he died in 510), but some modern scholarship suggests 549–477 BCE.
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mbara tradition claims that Mah
v
ra married a princess Yo
od
, who bore him a daughter, Priyadar
an
; but Digambara tradition rejects this. At the age of 30, Mah
v
ra renounced family life to become a wandering ascetic in the tradition of
P
r
va
—for a time in company with
Makkhali
Gosala. After twelve years of severe fasting to cleanse his body, of silence to improve his speech, and of meditation to clear his mind, he gained omniscience (
kevala

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