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mind if he, too, is given over to the step mother, I shall have the consolation, at least, of casting a glance over him if he is alive. etc.” The king liked this idea very much. He came out and announced the judgment as suggested by the Queen. The result was the same as it was anticipated. The king and his courtiers, then, praised the intelligence of the queen very highly, for, according to the proverb, "Foundation deep and faith unflinching”, the case was settled and the quarrel came to an end. From that day the king and his courtiers decided to name the would be son of the queen as 'Sumati' (Highly intelligent ).
Ninty, thousand crore Sagaropamas after SumatiNatha's attaining Liberation, the sixth Tirthankara, Lord Padma Prabhu, was born of Queen Susima, wife of king Shridhara of Kaushambi, on the twelfth Full Moon day of Kartika. He lived a family life for twenty-nine lacs of Purva years, after which he was consecrated in a garden near Kaushambi on the thirteenth Full Moon day of Kartika. About six months after this he attained Kevala-Jnana on the Full Moon day of Chaitra. He led the life of an ascetic for one lac of Purvas, and when all his Karmans were exhausted, he attained Liberation on the eleventh Full Moon da y of Marga-Shirsha.
It was nine thousand crore Sagaropamas after the Liberation of the sixth Tirthankara that king Pratishtha of Banarasi ( which is now called Benares ) begot a very handsome, healthy, gifted son, on the twelfth New Moon day of Jyeshtha. The names of the mother and the child were Prithivi Devi and Suparshva respectively. Suparshva become the seventh Tirthankara afterwards. After living as a
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