Vardhamāna, called Mahāvīra, “great hero”, left his princely household at about thirty, practised severe austerities for some twelve years, and attained omniscience. He taught for three decades in the Ganges valley before his death and liberation. Tradition places him in the sixth century BCE; many scholars place him a little later. His teachings were later compiled in the Āgamas.
Mahāvīra
The twenty-fourth Jain tīrthaṅkara, an elder contemporary of the Buddha, who gave Jainism its present form.
Also: Mahavira, Vardhamana