Sachitra Shraman Bhagwan Mahavir

SR No.: 006789
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M Subba Rao
Publisher: Sanmati Haidarabad
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 222
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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62. श्री सुमतिनाथ स्वामी
अयोध्या का शासन करनेवाला राजा मेघ उनकी रानी मंगला को वैशाख शुद्ध अष्टमी के दिन श्री सुमति नाथ स्वामी का जन्म हुआ। जब सुमतिनाथ अपनी माँ के गर्भ में थे तब महारानी ने एक बार भारी सभा में एक अच्छा फैसला सुनाकर (देकर) एक निर्दोष स्त्री को दण्ड (सजा) से बचाया । गर्भवती रानी को जो सूक्ष्मज्ञान प्राप्त हुआ था उसी ज्ञान की याद के चिह्न के रूप में इस बालक का नाम करण सुमति नाथ नाम से किया गया । लौकिक जीवन को भोगने के बाद श्री सुमतिनाथ ने वैशाख बहुळ नवमी के दिन सन्यास की दीक्षा ग्रहण करके समस्त कर्मों का त्याग करके केवल ज्ञान प्राप्त कर ली और अर्हत होकर पाँचवें तीर्थङ्कर हो गये। चैत्र बहुळ नवमी के दिन उन्हें मोक्ष की प्राप्ति
62 SHRI SUMATHINATHA SWAMY
The next of the Tirthanakaras is Shri Sumathinatha Swamy. His parents were King Megha and Quen Mangala of Ayodhya. The auspicious day of birth was Vaisakha Suddha Ashtami, (corresponding to the eight day of waxing fortnight in the second month of lunar calendar). When the queen was enceinte, she once gave a very wise judgement, in the royal court and saved the life of an innocent woman. On the assumption that the holy foetus in the womb of the queen must have been responsible for this wise judgement the baby, when it was born, was given the name Shri Sumathinatha. Shri Sumathinatha led a secular life until he was surfeited and then entered the order of monks on a Vaisakha Bahula Navami (corresoponding to the ninth day of waning fortnight in the second month of lunar the calendar). He broke all his earthly shackles and after a life of 20 years of monkhood attained Kevalajnana and became an Arhantha on a Chaitra Bahula Ekadasi corresponding to the eleventh day of the waning fotnight in the first month of the lunar calendar). He thus became the fifth Tirthankara. He attained the abode of the immortals on a Chaitra Bahula Navami, (corresponding to the ninth day of the waning phase of first month in the lunar calendar).