Jnatiputra

Jnatiputra (Skt. Jñātiputra; Tib. ཉེ་དུའི་བུ།, Wyl. nye du’i bu) was a leader of the Jain community, often identified as Mahavira, the twenty-fourth teacher of the Jain tradition. He appears frequently in Buddhist literature as an antagonist to Shakyamuni Buddha and his followers, revealing a simmering rivalry between the Buddhist and Jain communities.