The 20 Vihārmān Jinas

Because Mahāvideha Kṣetra never leaves the condition of the fourth ara, it is never without a living teacher. The twenty currently present are called vihārmān — the ones moving about, as against the twenty-four of Bharat Kṣetra who have all passed.

The four in Jambūdvīpa are Sīmandhar Svāmī in Puṣkalāvatī, Yugmandhar in Vatsa, Bāhu in Nalināvatī and Subāhu in Vapra. Four more stand in each of the two Mahāvidehas of Dhātakīkhaṇḍa and each of the two of Puṣkarārdha.

All twenty share the same measurements: a lifespan of 84 lakh pūrva, a height of 500 bows, 84 gaṇadharas each, ten lakh kevalins, and a community of monks and nuns numbering two crore.

They were born within the same window of Bharat's history — between the seventeenth and eighteenth Tīrthaṅkaras — and by tradition they will all reach liberation within the same short window of the next cycle.

They are one event rather than twenty. All were born after the nirvāṇa of Kunthunātha; all took dīkṣā together after the nirvāṇa of Munisuvrata; all attained omniscience one month later; and all are still teaching. Their liberation comes in the coming caubīsī, after its seventh.

Beyond the four of Jambūdvīpa named above, scripture gives the remaining sixteen as names and no more — no city, no vijaya, no emblem — and parentage for Sīmandhara alone. Spellings vary between reciting traditions: Viśāladhara or Viśālaprabha, Bhujaṅgama or Bhujaṅgadeva, Devayaśas or Devajasa, Ajitavīrya or Ajitasena.