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Jainism Mahavira was Janisms’ most important teacher and was born in 454 B. C.; he was the 24th and last Tirthankar (Fordmakers). Tirthankaras are enlightened teachers and aree responsible for bringing Jain religion to humans. His father was King Siddhartha and his mother was Queen Trishala. During the King and Queens rule over Kundapura, the villagers noticed that business and farming started to improve; the King attributed it to the Queens pregnancy. Legend has it that the prince was first conceived in the womb of the Brahmin Devananda, who had fourteen prophetic dreams, after three lunar cycles the prince was divinely transported into the womb of Queen Trishala who in turn had the same fourteen prophetic dreams. The dreams were interpreted, as the child would become either an emperor or a great Tirthankara (prophet). When the Queen gave birth to a son, they named him Vardhaman, which means ever growing or advancing. As Prince Vardhaman grew, he exhibited great bravery, once while he and his friends were playing the came upon a snake, the other children ran to hide, but the Prince simply picked up the snake and brought it to safer place. One time they were playing hide-and-go-seek. The rule was that when someone was