Nandivardhana was a
Kshatriya from the
Ikshvaku dynasty and the chief of the
Nāya Republic in
Kundagrama, a suburb of Vaishali (
Basarh in modern-day
Bihar
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).
He was the elder brother of
Mahavira, the 24th
Jain Tirthankara. His father was
Siddhartha.
.According to the second chapter of the
Śvētāmbara Ācārāṅga Sūtra, Siddhartha and his family were devotees of
Parshvanatha.
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6th-century BC Indian Jains
6th-century BC Indian people
Jain monarchs
Family of Mahavira
People from the Vajjika League
Nāyas