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Vāsupūjya

वासुपूज्य

Born in Campā, liberated in Campā — the only Tīrthaṅkara whose whole arc stays in one city.

Every other figure in the line ends somewhere other than where he began; twenty of them on Sammeta Śikhara. Vāsupūjya's mokṣa is Campā itself, the city of his birth.

He is the second red Tīrthaṅkara, with the buffalo for his emblem. He stood 70 dhanuṣ and lived 72 lakh years, fifty-four sāgaropama after Śreyāṃsa — the antaras too have left their lakhs of koṭis behind.

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 caubīsī12 of 24
The twenty-four, in descent — Vāsupūjya highlighted

Measurements and counts

Number12 of 24
Height70 dhanuṣ
Lifespan72 lakh years
After Śreyāṃsanātha54 sāgaropama
BornCampā
Complexionred
Emblembuffalo
MokṣaCampā
ParentsVasupūjya · Jayā

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10