23rd Jain Tirthankara
Details Alternate name: Parasnath Historical date: 877 – 777 BCE Family Father: Asvasena Mother: Vamadevi Dynasty: Ikshvaku Places Birth: Kashi (Banaras) Nirvana: Sammed Shikhar Attributes Colour: Blue Symbol: Snake Height: 7.7142852 Feet Age At Death: 100 years old Attendant Gods Yaksha: Vaman Yaksini: Padmavati
Parshva
Details Alternate name: Parasnath Historical date: 877 – 777 BCE Family Father: Asvasena Mother: Vamadevi Dynasty: Ikshvaku Places Birth: Kashi (Banaras) Nirvana: Sammed Shikhar Attributes Colour: Blue Symbol: Snake Height: 7.7142852 Feet Age At Death: 100 years old Attendant Gods Yaksha: Vaman Yaksini: Padmavati
Parshva
Parshvanath (पार्श्वनाथ) or Parshvanatha (pārśvá-nātha, occasionally spelled Parshvanath orParswanath) was the twenty-third Tirthankara (fordmaker) in Jainism. fl. ca. in the 9th Century BCE, traditionally (877 – 777 BCE).[1][2][3] He is the earliest Jain leader generally accepted as a historical figure.[4] He was a nobleman belonging to the Kshatriya caste. Parshvanath is also known as Appandai or Appandainathar(அப்பாண்டைநாதர்) in Tamil.
Life as a Tirthankara
He lived a life of a nobleman for 30 years and was married, before he renounced the world to become a monk. He meditated for 84 days before attaining Kewalgyan.[5] According to the Jain tradition he attained nirvana 250 years before the nirvana of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankar.[4]The chronology accepted by most Jains (Svetambaras) places Mahavira's death in 527 BCE.[6]Parshva was the son of king Ashvasena and queen Vama of Varanasi. He renounced the world and became an ascetic when he was 30 years old.[7] He achieved Nirvana atop Sammet Sikhar, now named Parshvanatha after him. He was called purisādāṇīya ("beloved of men"), a name which shows that he must have been a genial personality.[8] He remains beloved among Jains.[9]
There is a mention of four prominent leaders of the order of Lord Parshvanath:
- Gandhara Shubhdatta (Shumbh)
- Arya Haridatta
- Acharya Samudra Suri
- Arya Keshi Shraman
In addition, Parshvanath had ten Ganadhars, or disciples. He also has 108 names.
Arya Keshi Shraman is believed to have been born about 166 to 250 years after the death of Bhagawan Parshvanath. He met Ganadhara Gautam Swami, the main disciple of LordMahavira. Their discussion about the apparent differences between the teachings of the two Tirthankaras is recorded in Jain texts.
Parsvanatha is the 23rd tirthankara or ford-maker. He lived in Varanasi in India around 800 BCE and is the most popular object of Jain devotion. He is closely associated with compassion, although free from the world of rebirth, like all tirthankaras, and therefore unable to aid his devotees personally. [10] Jain religion teaches that a person has to help himself/herself to achieve the salvation. Others can only be a nimitta(efficient cause). A tirthankar teaches the world of the way to attain the salvation.
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