Lived from about 599 to 527 B.C., and was contemporary of Gautama the Buddha
Asceticism
The renunciation of physical pleasures and worldly attachments for the sake of spiritual advancement
Ahimsa
"non violence", both the avoidance of violence toward other life-forms, and an active sense of compassion toward them
Kevala
the perfect complete knowledge that is Jain enlightenment; marks the point at which one is fee from the damagin effects of Karma and is liberated from Samsara.
