Non-violence, restraint, and austerity are the best religions. Bhagwan Mahaveer, who believed in this, was Jainism's twenty-fourth (24th) Tirthankara. Bhagwan Mahavir Ji was born about two and a half thousand years ago (599 years before BC) in the Ayodhya Ikshvakuvanshi Kshatriya family in the Kundagram of Vaishali. At the age of thirty, Mahavir Ji renounced the kingdom's glory after becoming detached from the world and, after adopting sannyasa, went on the path of Moksha. After 12 years of hard penance, he attained Keval Gyan, after which he disseminated knowledge in Samvasaran. At the age of 72, he attained Moksha in Pavapuri. During this time, Mahavir Swami had many followers, including the prominent kings of the time, Bimbisara, Kunika, and Chetak.