LORD MAHAVEERA Jainism is the oldest religion in India . The religion preached by Lord Mahaveera is not a new religion; it is the religion of the jinas who had gone before him and popularized the basic principles of the greatness of self. Mahaveera was the twenty fourth, i.e., the last Tirthankar. According to the tradition he attained Nirvan 605 years before the beginning of the Saka Era.By either mode of calculation the date comes to 527 B.C. Since the lord attained emancipation at the age of 72, his birth must have been around 599B.C.This makes Mahaveer a slightly elder contemporary of Buddha who probably lived about 567-487 B.C. He was born on the 13 th day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra in the year 599 B.C. His father Siddharth , King of the Jňātŗ clan in Vaisali. His Mother was Trishla, the daughter of Chetaka, a king of the Chetaka, a king of a Licchavi clan. She had another na