According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.

According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist.

According to Jain Agams, it is the 2nd eternal city after Shikharji, which never vanishes or disappears during change of eras.

According to census of 2001, 92 % of the MP residents followed Hinduism, while others are Muslim ( 6 %), Jain ( 0. 9 %), Christians ( 0. 3 %), Buddhists ( 0. 3 %), and Sikhs ( 0. 2 %).

According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).

According to Jain cosmology, every time cycle has nine sets of Baladeva ( balabhadra ), vasudeva ( narayana ) and partivasudeva ( anti vasudeva or anti hero ).

According to another Jain text, Padmapurana, which narrates the story of Rama, Ravana belongs to the non-aryan clan of Vidyadhara — a highly cultured and knowledgeable people who were followers of Jainism and practised Ahimsa ( non-violence ).

According to Jain Ramayana, Sita was the daughter of Ravana.

According to Jain Samata Vahini, a social organization of the Jains, " the only structure that could be found during excavation would be a sixth century Jain temple ".

According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara.

According to a Persian inscription still on the inner eastern gateway, the mosque was built by the parts taken by destruction of twenty-seven Hindu and Jain temples built previously during Tomars and Prithvi Raj Chauhan, and leaving certain parts of the temple outside the mosque proper.

According to the Rajavalikatha a Jain work, the original name of this emperor was Simhasena.

According to a legend mentioned in the Jain texts, Chandragupta's Guru and advisor Chanakya used to feed the emperor with small doses of poison to build his immunity against possible poisoning attempts by the enemies.

According to the Rajavalikatha a Jain work, the original name of this emperor was Simhasena.

According to a legend mentioned in the Jain texts, Chandragupta's Guru and advisor Chanakya used to feed the emperor with small doses of poison to build his immunity against possible poisoning attempts by the enemies.

According to the Jain version, the image of Jagannath ( Black colour ) represents sunya, Subhadra symbolizes the creative energy and Balabhadra ( White colour ) represents the phenomenal universe.

According to George L. Hart, who holds the endowed Chair in Tamil Studies by University of California, Berkeley, has written that the legend of the Tamil Sangams or " literary assemblies: was based on the Jain sangham at Madurai:

According to Jain belief Siddha are liberated souls who have destroyed all the karma bondings.

According to the Jain tradition the king committed suicide while according to Buddhist tradition he was brutally murdered.

According to Jain traditions, it was on this day, falling at the beginning of chaturmas, the four month rainy season retreat, Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself, therefore it is observed in Jainism as Guru Purnima, and is marked special veneration to one's Gurus and teachers.

According to Jan Houben, the Sramanic period was followed by another period where Vedic ritualists tried to defend their actions against Buddhist and Jain criticism.

According to her, Bhandarkar repeatedly had sex with Jain from 1999 to 2004 at Natraj Apartment at Yari Road, Hotel Seaside at Juhu and at Bhandarkar's friend's ( Akbar ) flat at Mount Mary road, Bandra.

According to Jain beliefs, R ̥ ṣabha founded the Ikshvaku dynasty and was the first Tīrthaṅkara of the present age.

According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

According to traditional texts, some form of the calendar has been in use for almost five millennia.

According to Rix and his collaborators only two unified ( though fragmentary ) texts are available in Etruscan:

According to these texts, Jimmu's dynasty was supplanted by that of Emperor Ōjin, whose dynasty was supplanted by that of Emperor Keitai.

According to Paul Williams, " the deep-rooted misconception concerning an unfailing, ubiquitous fierce criticism of the Lesser Vehicle by the is not supported by our texts.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, " The evidence afforded by Egyptian and Greek texts support the view that Imhotep's reputation was very respected in early times ... His prestige increased with the lapse of centuries and his temples in Greek times were the centers of medical teachings.

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

According to the classic Jewish texts, Jacob, as the third and last patriarch, lives a life that parallels the descent of his offspring, the Jewish people, into the darkness of exile.

According to the PaRDeS approaches to exegesis, interpretation of Biblical texts in Judaism is realized through peshat ( literal or plain meaning, lit.

According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.

According to the lineage texts on prayer wheels, prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit ( good karma ) and to purify negativities ( bad karma ).

According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed.

According to classical rabbinic texts this parallel set of material was originally transmitted to Moses at Sinai, and then from Moses to Israel.

According to Islamic texts, the prophet Ibrahim ( Abraham ) was thrown into the fire here.

According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of 21st Century texts that contains everything from academic journal articles to unedited writing and blog entries, contemporary writers opt for the nonstandard ' chords ' instead of ' cords ' 49 % of the time.

According to ancient Chinese texts, before the Xia Dynasty was established, battles were frequent between the Xia tribe and Chi You's tribe.

According to some texts, Set's semen enters Horus ' body and makes him ill, but in " Contendings ", Horus thwarts Set by catching Set's semen in his hands.

According to the literature, this type of seminar is beneficial for teachers who want students to explore a variety of texts around a main issue or topic.

According to texts written by Mozarabs in northern Iberia during the ninth century, noble Visigoths, in 718 AD, elected a man named Pelagius ( 681-737 ) as their leader.

The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to around the 13th century, including the Noon and Midnight Manual and the Mnemonic Rhyme to Aid in the Selection of Acu-points According to the Diurnal Cycle, the Day of the Month and the Season of the Year.

According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.

According to the Dēnkard, a semi-religious work written in the 9th century, the king Volgash ( thought to be the Parthian king Vologases I, c. 51 – 78 AD ) attempted to have the sacred texts collected and collated.

According to tradition, in the 3rd century, the Sassanian emperor Ardashir I ( r. 226-241 AD ) commanded his high priest Tonsar ( or Tansar ) to compile the theological texts.

According to the 2007 book The History of the Hobbit, Tolkien was now influenced by his own selective reading of medieval texts regarding the Jewish people and their history.