 He is believed to have attained nirvana in 507 BC at the age of 100.The leadership of religious order was then transferred to Jambuswami who served for 44 years.For Jains, their scriptures represent the literal words of Mahavira and the other tirthankaras only to the extent that the agama is a series of beginning-less, endless and fixed truths, a tradition without any origin, human or divine, which in this world age has been channelled through Sudharmāsvāmī, the last of Mahavira's disciples to survive.