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The *Adipurana* is a collection of the *Tirthankara Puranas*, and some say that it also includes the *Chakravarti Puranas*, making a total of twenty-four *Puranas*.
The first *Purana* is of Rishabhanatha, the second of Ajitanatha, the third of Sambhavanatha, the fourth of Abhinandanatha, the fifth of Sumatinatha, the sixth of Padmini, the seventh of Suparshvanatha, the eighth of Chandra Prabha, the ninth of Pushpadanta, the tenth of Shitalanatha, the eleventh of Shreyansanatha, the twelfth of Vasupujya, the thirteenth of Vimalanatha, the fourteenth of Anantanatha, the fifteenth of Dharmanatha, the sixteenth of Shantinatha, the seventeenth of Kunthunatha, the eighteenth of Aranatha, the nineteenth of Mallinatha, the twentieth of Munisuvrata, the twenty-first of Naminatha, the twenty-second of Neminatha, the twenty-third of Parsvanatha, and the twenty-fourth of Sanmati-Mahavira Swami.
This collection of twenty-four *Puranas* of the twenty-four *Tirthankaras* is called the *Mahapuraṇa*.
The *Mahapuraṇa* that I have described will be very short in the last part of this *Avasarpini* era.
Because of the faults of the fifth *Kala* called *Dushsama*, the intellect of humans will decrease, and as the intellect decreases, the size of the *Purana* will also decrease.
This should be understood clearly: After us, the *Shruta Kevali* Sudharma Acharya, who is like us, will fully reveal this *Mahapuraṇa*.
From him, Shri Jambuswami will hear this entire *Purana*, and he, being the last *Kevali*, will fully reveal it in this world.
At this time, I, Sudharma Acharya, and Jambuswami, all three of us are *Shruta Kevali*, possessing complete *Shruta* knowledge. We three will attain *Kevalgyan* and become liberated in due course.
The time of our liberation, we three *Kevalis*, will be sixty-two years after the liberation of Bhagavan Vardhamana Swami.