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The 17 pages that link to Mahavira, each with the reason it gives.

• JainismBroader topic: Jain tradition associates his teaching and community with the religion’s historical formation.

• AhimsaRelated: Jain tradition presents his teaching and ascetic discipline as a defining model of nonviolence.

• Jain monasticismBroader topic: Jain accounts present Mahavira as a model and teacher of renunciant discipline.

• The BuddhaCompared with: Their near-contemporary lives show parallel renunciant movements with distinct doctrines.

• MagadhaRelated: His life and teaching in the region made Magadha central to Jain tradition.

• DigambaraRelated: Digambara tradition traces its teaching lineage to Mahavira.

• Jain AgamasRelated: Jain tradition attributes the teachings preserved in the Agamas to Mahavira and his lineage.

• TirthankaraBroader topic: He is the current age's final Tirthankara and the best-documented figure in the sequence.

• AnekantavadaRelated: Jain tradition presents his teachings as a foundation for doctrines of many-sided reality.

• ĀjīvikaRelated: Jain texts describe Gosāla’s earlier association with Mahāvīra and their later doctrinal conflict.

• DiwaliRelated: For Jains, Diwali commemorates Mahavira’s liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

• KosalaRelated: Jain traditions place his activity within the same north Indian political world as Kosala.

• AjatashatruRelated: Jain traditions place Ajatashatru within the same political and religious world as Mahavira.

• ŚramaṇaBroader topic: His career represents the Jain stream of the Śramaṇa tradition.

• History of BiharRelated: His traditional association with the region connects Bihar’s history to Jainism’s formative period.

• History of JainismBroader topic: His life marks the central formative episode in Jain historical accounts.

• PārśvanāthaRelated: Jain accounts place Mahāvīra after Pārśvanātha and describe continuity between their teachings.