Table Of Contents :

1. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA: THE GREAT SAVIOUR IN LOTUS-POSTURE

2. A GRAND PICTURE OF A TIRTHAMKARA DEVA WITH HIS EIGHT DIVINE ACCOMPANIMENTS (MAHA-PRATIHARYA)

3. SYMBOLIC INCIDENTS FROM THE TWENTY-FIVE PRECEDING LIVES OF BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA

4. TWENTY-PADAS THE ELEMENTS OF VIMSATISTHANAKA ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO ATTAIN TIRTHAMKARA NAMAKARMA-PADA

5. CYAVANA-KALYANAKA (THE AUSPICIOUS EVENT OF CONCEPTION) [Lie.26-27th]

6. DEVANANDA NARRATES HER DREAM AND SAKRA COMMANDS HARI-NAIGAMESIN TO TRANSPLANT THE FOETUS

7. TRANSPLANTATION OF FETUSES BY HARI-NAIGAMESIN

8. QUEEN TRISALA WITNESSES FOURTEEN GREAT DREAMS

9. FOURTEEN GREAT DREAMS OF THE MOTHER OF A THIRTHAMKARA

10. JANMAKALYANAKA : CELEBRATION OF THE BLISSFUL BIRTH [Incident-1]

11. JANMAKALYANKA : CELEBRATION OF THE BLISSFUL BIRTH [Incident-2]

12. JANMAKALYANAKA : CELEBRATION OF THE BLISSFUL BIRTH (Incident-3)

13. THE PARENTS OF A WOULD BE TIRTHAMKARA FONDLING AND LOVING THEIR DIVINE CHILD

14. PRINCE VARDHAMANA’S COURAGE TESTED BY A GOD

15. BRAVERY TESTED AGAIN AND HE IS BESTOWED THE TITLE ‘MAHAVIRA’

16. PRINCE VARDHAMANA SURPRISES EVERYBODY BY HIS PROFOUND ERUDITION

17. THE WEDDING CEREMONY OF VARDHAMANA MAHAVIRA. HIS MEETING WITH HIS FAMILY MEMBERS AND HIS TALK WITH FRIENDS

18. PRINCE VARDHAMANA WITH THE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY

19. REQUESTING NANDIVARDHANA TO GRANT HIM PERMISSION FOR INITIATION

20. VARIOUS INCIDENTS FROM THE LIFE OF BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA

21. GODS BESEACHING BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA TO ESTABLISH THE RELIGIOUS ORDER

22. PRINCE VARDHAMANA DISTRIBUTING LARGESS’S

23. THE GREAT FINAL DEPARTURE AND THE GRAND PROCESSION FOR INITIATION

24. PLUCKING OFF THE HAIR AND ACCEPTING THE VOW OF RENUNCIATION

25. PLEASANT DISTRACTION DURING THE RELIGIOUS WALK

26. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA’S RELIGIOUS WALK. HIS DHYANA (MEDITATION) AND HIS FIRST BREAKING OF THE FAST (PARANA) AND HIS DECISION NOT TO STAY AT A PLACE WHERE HE DOES NOT LIKE

27. GIFT OF THE HALF OF THE DEVADUSYA TO A POOR BRAHMIN

28. INDRA PREVENTS A COWHERD FROM ASSAULTING BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA

29. YAKSHA SULAPANI HARASSING BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA IN MEDITATION

30. CHANDAKAUSHIKA-A DEADLY COBRA ENLIGHTENED BY MAHAVIRA

31. SUDAMSTRA. A SERPENT-PRINCE. CAUSES HAVOC IN THE RIVER

32. GOD SANGAMA TESTS MAHAVIRA’S ENDURANCE AND COURAGE BY TWENTY SEVERE TESTS

33. ACCEPTING ALMS FROM CHANDANBALA ON FULFILLMENT OF THE VOWS

34. EARS PLUGGED WITH PEGS AND THEIR REMOVAL BY PINCERS

35. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA ABSORBED IN SUKLA-DHYANA-HIGHEST MEDITATION

36. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA ATTAINS ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE (KEVALAJNANA

37. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA DELIVERING A SERMON IN THE SAMAVASARANA

38. A TIRTHAMKARA’S RELIGIOUS WALK ALONG WITH EIGHT GREAT DIVING ACCOMPANIMENTS ON A GOLDEN LOTUS

39. ELEVEN LEARNED BRAHMINS’ ARRIVAL TO INTERPRETE THE ‘SASTRAS’

40. ELEVEN LEARNED BRAHMINS ACCEPTING INITIATION. AS GANADHARAS

41. EVEN BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA WHO HAS FULFILLED HIS DUTIES MOVES ROUND THE HOLY TREE

42. AN ULTRA GRAND ENTRANCE-DOOR OF THE SAMAVASARANA AND A CHARACTERISTIC SCENE OF THE THIRD GADHA (ENCLOSURE

43. AN AUSPICIOUS CEREMONY OF BALIVIDHANA

44. GOSALAKA RELEASES TEJOLESYA-A FIERY FLAME-TO BURN DOWN BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA BUT FAILS
45. A SERMON-DESANA DELIVERED TO EIGHTEEN KINGS

46. BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA’S LAST SERMON AT PAVAPURI LASTING FOR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AND THE NIRVANA (FINAL LIBERATION

47. THE FUNERAL RITES PERFORMED BY MOURNING GODS AND MEN

48. GAUTAMASWAMI ATTAINS ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE AND FIRST SERMON

Bhagavan Mahavira’s 26 Preceding Births & The Forty Eight Paintings

APPENDICES
INTRODUCTION OF 80 ILLUSTRATION _STRIPS AND MORE THAN 144 SYMBOLIC ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION OF 144 SYMBOLS PRINTED 1”X1” SQUARES IN BETWEEN THE ARTICLE OF 48 PICTORIAL INTRODUCTION

The Teachings of Bhagawan Mahavir