Q. Why is Mahavira called Jina?
Solution:
-‘Mahavira’, his given name, is to mean literally a ‘Great Hero’.
-He was known as ‘Jina’, the one who conquered temptations for sensual pleasures, and hence the name Jainism for the religion he shaped up and propagated from the teachings of his predecessors.
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