Lord Mahavir's preaching was methodically compiled by his immediate disciples known as Gandharas, and elder monks known as Srut-kevalis into many texts known as Sutras. These Sutras are collectively known as Agams or Agam Sutras, the sacred books of the Jain religion.
<u>A branch of philosophy dealing with values pertaining to human conduct</u>, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and the goodness or badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
Chile, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina are the territories that at one point or another had constituted the Viceroyalty of Peru.
