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[The Twenty-two Tirthankaras
his real form and said, 'I am very much pleased with this act of your kindness. I wanted only to put your generosity and compassion to test. I demand nothing now.' So saying, he made my body as hale and hearty as it was before. Then, the two birds again flew into the sky and disappeared at a distance ".
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'So, this is, as a result of that kindness, my dear lady, have attained such a position of eminence, in this life". The queen conceived and bore a child in due time. He was named as Chakra yudha (one who has got a wheel as his chief weapon) In his youth, he was married with a beautiful wife. After that, Shantinatha entered the order of monks. Chakra yudha followed suit in due time; he placed the burden of ruling the whole kingdom upon the shoulders of his son, Kavacha Hara, and then accepted renunciation.
He became the First Gana Dhara (Principal disciple) of Lord Santi Natha.
When half a Palyopama's time had passed after Lord Shanti Natha's, the sixteenth Tirthankara's, obtaining emancipation from the bondage of karmans, Kunthu Nathaji, the seventeenth Tirthankara, was born of queen "Shri", wife of king Sura of Gajapura, on the fourteenth Full Moon day of Vaishakha. He led a worldly life for a period of seventy one thousand, two hundred and fifty years; after which he entered the order of monks on the fifth Full Moon day of Chaitra. He attained Kevala Jnana on the third New Moon day of Chaitra, just sixteen years after his renunciation. He then practised a severe self-discipline for a period of twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty years, and when all his karmans were completely destroyed, he
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