Mahavira
Indian religious reformer of the sixth or fifth century BCE, considered by Jains the 24th and final Tirthankara of the present time cycle; his teaching survives in the Jain canon as his disciples handed it down.
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Their wordsIndifferent to worldly objects, a man should wander about treating all creatures in the world so as he himself would be treated.
↗Sutrakritanga, as recorded by the Jain tradition (tr. Hermann Jacobi, 1895)archive.org