* Recipients of Mahavir Chakra from Indian Navy

* Recipients of Mahavir Chakra from Indian Army

The regiment has won a Param Vir Chakra which was won by Lt Manoj Kumar Pandey of the 1st Battalion during the 1999 Kargil Conflict, 1 Victoria Cross Ganju Lama, the highest gallantry award of the British army, 6 Military Crosses, 2 Mahavir Chakras, 3 Ashok Chakras Capt M B Rai, 5th Battalion, Rfn Sal Bahadur and Capt Punit Nath Dutt, 7 PVSMs, 9AVSMs, 11 VSMs, 11 Vir Chakras, 5 Shaurya Chakras and 35 Sena Medals.

Usman, was killed in action on July 3, 1948, and awarded the Mahavir Chakra posthumously.

The highlight of the tenure undoubtedly was when the unit provided their services during Operation Tomahawk on 21 March, 1951 to the US Army ’ s 187 Airborne Regimental Combat Team for which the unit was awarded two Mahavir Chakras, one bar to Vir Chakra and six Vir Chakras.

The last stand of Mahavir Chakra awardee Jaswant Singh Rawat took place in Tawang.

During the rule of the 15th Kirata King Jinghri, another religious doctrine, Jainism, was being preached by Mahavir in India.

Another place of a divine light of Lord Mahavir was also traced as " Jrimbhikgram " on the bank of Rijuvalika river which resembles Jambhiyagram Ujjhuvaliya.

Further development of Hindi was taken by prominent laureates such as Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi and Munshi Premchand from the Bhojpuri-speaking region.

During ancient times about 2600 year ago, Pawapuri was one of twin capital of Mall Mahajanpad which later became the part of Magadha Kingdom and was called " Madyama Pawa " or " Apawapuri ", Ajatshatru, who was one of the greatest disciples of Lord Mahavira was the King of Magadh during the lifetime of Mahavir.

Justice Mahavir Singh ( 1920-1997 ) was a justice, an authority of law and social reformer of India.

It was under his leadership that a 14-year-old boy Hare Krishna Chaudhary unfurled the National Tri-Colour on the Treasury building of Madhepura court on 13 August 1942 and Kameshwar Lal Das ( Only son of philanthropists Late Mahavir Lal Das and Late Sumena Devi of the village Rajni Bhavangama of Bihariganj Block in Udakishanganj Sub-Division ) left his studies and went to jail several times to set the country free from foreign rule.

Another place of a divine light of Lord Mahavir was also traced as " Jrimbhikgram " on the bank of Rijuvalika river which resembles Jambhiyagram Ujjhuvaliya.

After Mahavir, nearly 150 years Jain Samvatsari was shifted to Chaturthi ( 4th day of Bhadrapada of Shukla phase.

Lord Mahavir was born in 599 B. C.

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* Mahavir Jayanti, The birthday of Mahavir, the last Thirthankar is celebrated on the thirteenth day of the fortnight of the waxing moon, in the month of Chaitra.

English version of " Baghawan Mahavir ki Vani " – Thus Spake Lord Mahavir.

The Basic Thought of Bhagavan Mahavir.

Shakyamuni Gautama ( who left a more severe ascetism to seek a reasoned " middle way " of balanced life ), Mahavir Swami, Anthony the Great ( St. Anthony of the Desert ), Francis of Assisi, Jesus, and Mahatma Gandhi can all be considered ascetics.

Vardhaman's birthday is celebrated as Mahavir Jayanti, the most important religious holiday of Jains around the world.

According to Jainism, the 24th Tirthankar lord Mahavir got divine knowledge in Jambhiyagram situated on the bank of river named Ujjihuvaliya.

The Dwivedi Yug (" Age of Dwivedi ") in Hindi literature lasted from 1900 to 1918. It is named after Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, who played a major role in establishing modern Hindi language in poetry and broadening the acceptable subjects of Hindi poetry from the traditional ones of religion and romantic love.

In Jainism, Mahavir Jayanti, also known as Mahavir Janma Kalyanak, is the most important religious holiday.

In addition, the Sikh festivals such as Guru Nanak Gurpurab, the Christian festivals such as Christmas, Good Friday and Jain festivals like Mahavir Jayanti, Paryushan are celebrated in certain areas where these religions have a significant following. The annual holidays are widely observed by state and local governments ; however, they may alter the dates of observance or add or subtract holidays according to local custom.

In other words, they have the option to select 11 ( Eleven ) holidays of their own only after including in the list, three National Holidays and Milad-Un-Nabi or Id-E-Milad, Mahavir Jayanti, Idu ' l Fitr, Dussehra ( Vijaya Dashami ), Guru Nanak's Birthday, Christmas Day included in the list of compulsory holidays and falling on days of weekly off.

Asaga wrote Vardhaman Charitra ( Life of Vardhman Mahavir ), an epic which runs in 18 cantos, in 853 CE, the first Sanskrit language biography of 24th and last Thirthankara of Jainism, Mahavira, though his Kannada language version of Kalidasa's epic poem, Kumārasambhava, Karnataka Kumarasambhava Kavya is lost.

* Mahavir Swami, dedicated to the last Jain Tirthankara, Mahavira.

It has a big statue of Bhagwan Mahavir.

Mahavir Singh, an associate of Bhagat Singh ( Lahore conspiracy case ) protested the inhuman treatment meted to the prisoners and sat in hunger strike.

* Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military honor

After her death she received the Special Courage Award from the United States Department of Justice and India's highest civilian honor for bravery, the Ashoka Chakra.

The 1965 war between India and Pakistan witnessed the personal bravery of an Indian soldier, Abdul Hamid, who was honoured with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military award, for knocking out seven Pakistani Patton tanks with a recoilless gun.

The Param Vir Chakra ( PVC ) is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy.

In 1961 Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria received the posthumous Param Vir Chakra ( PVC ), India's highest military honour, for his actions in the Congo when the 3rd Battalion, of which he was part, was on United Nations service.

Colonel J. R. Chitnis, CO 1 / 3 GR, was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra posthumously — India's highest peacetime medal for valour — in Nagaland in 1956.

During the 1999 Kargil Conflict Manoj Kumar Pandey received the Param Vir Chakra ( PVC ), which is India's highest military award.

Neerja was recognised internationally as " the heroine of the hijack " and is the youngest recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest civilian award for bravery.

For her bravery the Government of India posthumously awarded her the Ashoka Chakra ( India's highest decoration for gallantry away from the battlefield, or not in the face of the enemy ), being its youngest recipient.

In Recognition of his iniative, persoanl bravery, superior leadership and outsatanding devotion to duty in the highest tradition of the Battalion, Naik Nar Bahadur Thapa was awarded India's first Ashok Chakra.

He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for valour in the face of the enemy.

Lance-Naik Albert Ekka was posthumously awarded India's highest wartime gallantry award, the Param Vir Chakra.

Major Rajesh Adhikari ( posthumously ) and Digendra Kumar were awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest military honour for their daring actions on the peak.

* Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military honour was awarded to Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, 17th Poona Horse

* Vir Chakra, India's third highest military honour was awarded to Lieutenant Colonel B. T. Pandit, Madras Engineer Group

Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, PVC ( 14 October 1950-16 December 1971 ) born in Pune, Maharashtra, was an officer of the Indian Army and a posthumous recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for valour in face of the enemy.

The Ashoka Chakra, in addition to being a long standing Hindu symbol of time, also resembles Mahatma Gandhi's charkha ( spinning wheel ) and thus in the current context, may symbolize the Indian independence movement which resulted in India's freedom from British occupation.

The battle also witnessed the personal bravery of an Indian soldier, Abdul Hamid, who was honoured with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military award, for knocking out seven enemy tanks with a recoilless gun.