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heroic valour. Hence he was given the significant name of Mahavira.
CHAPTER VIII Early Years
VIII Ye tiny elves, that guilt-less sport Like linnets in the bush Ye little know the ill ye court, When manhood is your wish. The losses, the crosses, That active men engage; The fears all, the tears all, Of dim declining age.
-BURNS. Mahavira inherited from his parents all that was good and praise worthy in them.
Indeed he had the manly valour of his father and the extraordinary personal beauty and charms of his mother.
The boy hood of Mahavira was a perfect illustration of the saying, “ The Childhood shows the man as the morning shows the day.”
King Siddhartha entrusted him to the care of the best nurses in his realm. Each of them had a duty specially assigned to her and nothing
