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Bhagawan Mahavir 1
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attained the freedom of soul on the first Full Moon day of Vaishakha.
He was the sixth emperor and ruled over all the six continents. After accepting renunciation, and, bringing into existence the fourfold Tirtha (Samgha ), he attained the position of the seventeenth Tirthankara.
When a period of a quarter of a Palyopama minus one crore and one thousand years had elapsed after the seventeenth Tirthankara's going for Nirvana-pada, Lord ArhaNathaji, the eighteenth Tirthankara, was born in this world, on the tenth New Moon day of Agahana. He was born of queen Devi, wife of Sudarshana, king of Gajapura. He became the seventh emperor and ruled over all the six continents. He lived a family life for a period of sixty three thousand years, after which, he accepted renunciation on the eleventh New Moon day of Aghana in an orchard adjoining Gajapur. He attained Kevala Jnana on the twelfth New Moon day of Kartika, three years after his renunciation. He practised penances for a period of twenty one thousand years; and when he had perfectly shaken off bis karmic bondage, he attained spiritual freedom, on the tenth New Moon day of Agahana.
Some times, in the period intervening between the eighteenth Tirthankara's reaching Liberation and the nineteenth Tirthankara's taking his birth, a number of birds came to the Ashrama ( hermitage ) of sage Jamadagni and rebuked him for his untimely renunciation. They said, "How unfortunate you are ! O sage ! and, how sinful your life ! in not marrying and producing a male child in order to keep your line unbroken”. These words, which were so full of
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