The Namokar or Navkar mantra is the first thing a Jain child learns and the most frequently recited text in the religion. It has five salutations — to the Arihants, the enlightened who are still embodied and teaching; the Siddhas, the liberated; the Acharyas, heads of monastic orders; the Upadhyayas, the teaching monks; and all Sadhus and Sadhvis anywhere in the universe — followed by four lines stating that this fivefold bowing destroys all sin and is the first among all auspicious things. What is structurally remarkable is that it names nobody. No individual, no deity, no founder, no sect. It bows to five categories of achievement, so it can be recited by a Jain of any sect about anyone who qualifies, including beings in other regions of the universe and other ages that the speaker knows nothing about. It is said on waking, before eating, before travel, before an examination, at the moment of a death, and it is what the dying are helped to recite. Both Digambaras and Svetambaras accept it without variation, which almost nothing else achieves.