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[The Twenty-two Tirthankaras
then became the sole monarch of the three Khandas (continents).
Shri Mallinathaji, the nineteenth Tirthankara, saw the light of this world, on the eleventh New-Moon day of Agahana, one crore and one thousand years after the eighteenth Tirthankara's attaining beatitude. This Lord was born of queen Prabhavati, who was the wife of king Kumbha Raja of Mithila. After leading worldly life for one hundred years, she accepted renunciation, in an orchard in the vicinity of Mithila, on the eleventh New-Moon day of Agahana. She attained Kevala Jnana, too, on that very day. She practised austerities completely for fifty four thousand and nine hundred years. In this way, when all her karmans were utterly exhausted, she attained perfect bliss on the twelfth New-Moon-day of Phalguna.
Fifty four lacs of years had passed after the Liberation of the nineteenth Tirthankara, before the Twentieth Tirthankara, Shri Muni Suvrataji, was born in this world. He was born of queen Padmavati, wife of king Sumitra, of RajaGriha, on the eighth Full-Moon day of Jyeshtha. He lived a lay-man's life for twenty two thousand and five hundred years, and then entered the order of monks in his royal orchard, on the twelfth New-Moon day of Phalguna, He attained Kevala Jnana on the twelfth Full Moon day of Phalguna, eleven months after his consecration. He observed his vow of renunciation for seven thousand and five hundred years. In the end, after shattering the bonds of karman, he attained supreme Bliss, on the ninth Full-Moon-day of Jyeshtna.
The ninth Chakravartin (emperor), Maha Padma was his contemporary. He was the son of Padmottra, the King of
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