This figure, who was sometimes followed by ten disciples, may have been married to a daughter of Jitashatru named Yashoda, and he once experienced a vision while assuming a cow-milking position, causing him to become omniscent.
He's not Andy Watkins, but one story about this figure tells of him stripping naked in a forest and symbolically tearing out five tufts of his hair. Another story tells how the god Sangama transformed into a venomous serpent in an unsuccessful attempt to frighten this figure, who instead showed no fear. This figure, who was sometimes followed by ten disciples, may have been married to a daughter of Jitashatru named Yashoda, and he once experienced a vision while assuming a cow-milking position, causing him to become omniscent. Parshva and Rishabha are among this man's predecessors, who number twenty-three in total. For ten points, name this most recent Tirthankara, considered the founder of our time-cycle's Jainism.
He's not Andy Watkins, but one story about this figure tells of him stripping naked in a forest and symbolically tearing out five tufts of his hair.
Mahavira