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Mahāvīra

महावीर

The last Tīrthaṅkara of our half-cycle: seven hāth tall, seventy-two years, and the whole Samavasaraṇa section of this atlas describes his assembly.

Vardhamāna, called Mahāvīra, born in Kṣatriyakuṇḍa of Siddhārtha and Triśalā. Beside Ṛṣabha's 500 dhanuṣ and 84 lakh pūrva, his figures read like a rounding error — 7 hāth, 72 years, 250 years after Pārśva — and that contrast is the entire argument of the Descent: the same office, held at every scale the wheel passes through.

He reached mokṣa at Pāvāpurī three years and eight and a half months before the fifth ara began — the join between his life and the age we live in is measured to the half-month.

No Tīrthaṅkara follows him in this half-cycle. The next, Padmanābha, belongs to the rising half of the wheel; the teaching meanwhile continues in Mahāvideha, where Sīmandhara preaches now.

the third ara, endingthe fifth ara begins 3 years 8½ months after him1 · Ṛṣabhanātha500 dhanuṣ · 84 lakh pūrvaafter 50 lakh koṭi sāgaropama2 · Ajitanātha450 dhanuṣ · 72 lakh pūrvaafter 30 lakh koṭi sāgaropama3 · Sambhavanātha400 dhanuṣ · 60 lakh pūrvaafter 10 lakh koṭi sāgaropama4 · Abhinandananātha350 dhanuṣ · 50 lakh pūrvaafter 9 lakh koṭi sāgaropama5 · Sumatinātha300 dhanuṣ · 40 lakh pūrvaafter 90,000 koṭi sāgaropama6 · Padmaprabha250 dhanuṣ · 30 lakh pūrvaafter 9,000 koṭi sāgaropama7 · Supārśvanātha200 dhanuṣ · 20 lakh pūrvaafter 900 koṭi sāgaropama8 · Candraprabha150 dhanuṣ · 10 lakh pūrvaafter 90 koṭi sāgaropama9 · Suvidhinātha100 dhanuṣ · 2 lakh pūrvaafter 9 koṭi sāgaropama10 · Śītalanātha90 dhanuṣ · 1 lakh pūrvaafter 1 koṭi sāgaropamaless 100 sāgaropama and 66,26,000 years11 · Śreyāṃsanātha80 dhanuṣ · 84 lakh yearsafter 54 sāgaropama12 · Vāsupūjya70 dhanuṣ · 72 lakh yearsafter 30 sāgaropama13 · Vimalanātha60 dhanuṣ · 60 lakh yearsafter 9 sāgaropama14 · Anantanātha50 dhanuṣ · 30 lakh yearsafter 4 sāgaropama15 · Dharmanātha45 dhanuṣ · 10 lakh yearsafter 3 sāgaropamaless ¾ palyopama16 · Śāntinātha40 dhanuṣ · 1 lakh yearsafter ½ palyopama17 · Kunthunātha35 dhanuṣ · 95,000 yearsafter ¼ palyopamaless 1,000 koṭi years18 · Aranātha30 dhanuṣ · 84,000 yearsafter 1,000 koṭi yearshere the texts stop counting in sāgaropamasand begin counting in years19 · Mallinātha25 dhanuṣ · 55,000 yearsafter 54 lakh years20 · Munisuvrata20 dhanuṣ · 30,000 yearsafter 6 lakh years21 · Naminātha15 dhanuṣ · 10,000 yearsafter 5 lakh years22 · Neminātha10 dhanuṣ · 1,000 yearsafter 83,750 years23 · Pārśvanātha9 hāth · 100 yearsafter 250 years24 · Mahāvīra7 hāth · 72 yearspast caubīsīours · the presentfuture caubīsī24 of 24
The twenty-four, in descent — Mahāvīra highlighted

Measurements and counts

Number24 of 24
Height7 hāth
Lifespan72 years
After Pārśvanātha250 years
BornKṣatriyakuṇḍa
Complexiongolden
Emblemlion
MokṣaPāvāpurī
ParentsSiddhārtha · Triśalā

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10