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Timeline of Jainism

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Before Common Era (BCE)

  • 584,979–574,979 BCE: Naminatha, 21st Tirthankara
  • Neminatha, 22nd Tirthankara: According to Jain beliefs, he lived 84,650 years before the 23rd Tirthankara, Parshvanatha. He existed in the Mahabharata era and was the cousin brother of Krishna.
  • 877–777 BCE: Parshvanatha, 23rd Tirthankar of Jainism. He is the earliest Jain tirthankara who can be reliably dated.
  • 9th-8th century BCE Avakinnayo Karakandu or 'Karakanda' was a powerful Jain monarch of Kalinga.
  • 847 BCE: Tirthankar Parswanath attained enlightenment at Ahichchhatra at the age of 30.
  • 599–527 BCE: Mahavira, 24th and last Tirthankar of this era.
  • 607-507 BCE: Ganadhar Sudharma Swami
  • d. 470 BCE:establishment of the Śrīmali and Porvāl clans by Swayambrabhasuri of Upkesa Gaccha's.
  • 5th century BCE: Establishment of the Oswāl clan by Ratnabrabhasuri of Upkesa Gaccha of Śvetāmbara Jains.
  • d. 443 BCE: Barli Jain inscriptions.
  • d. 357 BCE: Acharya Bhadrabahu
  • d. 270 BCE: The tamil brahmi inscriptions mentions that workers of Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ I, a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks. inscription shows that Kaṭalaṉ Vaḻuti, a worker of Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ, made a stone bed for the Jain monk Nanta-siri Kuvaṉ.
  • 3rd century BCE: Lohanipur torso a damaged statue of Jaina Tirthankara Rishabhdev.
  • 3rd century BCE: The inscriptions at Vaddamanu indicates Vaddamanu as a Jain center during the 3rd century BCE.
  • 2nd century BCE:Sithanavassal a 2nd-century BCE Tamil Jain cave complex.
  • d. 162 BCE: Hathigumpha inscription mentions the Namokar Mantra and Jain monarch Kharvela.
  • 2nd century BCE: Namokar Mantra epigraphically attested in Maharashtra. Pale cave is one of the oldest Jain cave in Maharashtra, which is believed to be from 200 BCE. Here the Namokar Mantra is written in Brahmi script.
  • 2nd century BCE: Thiruparankundram hill in Tamil Nadu is home to ancient Jain beds with Tamil Brahmi Jain inscriptions dated to 2nd century BCE.
  • 2nd-1st Century BCE:Samanar Malai has several very old Tamil-Brahmi Jain cave inscriptions, likely the early centuries of the common era.
  • 2nd Century BCE - 1st Century CE: Bronze Images of Pārśvanātha now stored at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
  • 150 BCE to 1023 CE: Inscriptions of Kankali Tila dated to 150BCE

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