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Tīrthaṅkaras

तीर्थंकर

The twenty-four of our half-cycle, and the caubīsīs before and after them.

In each half-turn of the wheel twenty-four Tīrthaṅkaras arise. Ours ran from Ṛṣabha, five hundred dhanuṣ tall with intervals counted in sāgaropamas, down to Mahāvīra, seven hāth tall and two hundred and fifty years after Pārśva. Scripture names the twenty-four of the previous half-cycle and the twenty-four to come, but gives their measures only for ours. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.

All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.

The caubīsīs before and after 2

The twenty teaching now 19

How a Tīrthaṅkara is depicted 3

Our twenty-four 24

The twenty viharamāna, standing at once 1

समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10