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Hastinapura. His mother's name was Jwala. When he grew young, he brought the six Khandas under his sway. In the end, he accepted renunciation and was admitted into the region of everlasting happiness. Not long after this, the four queens of Dasharatha king of Ayodhya, begot four sons: queen Aparajita gave birth to Ramaji, queen Sumitra to Lakshmanaji, queen Kaekiyi to Bharataji, and queen Suprabha to Shatrughnaji. Ramaji was married to Sita the daughter of King of Janaka. Ravana was ruling at that time in Lanka. He was a Prati-Vasudeva. As he had kidnapped Sita, he was killed in battle by Lakshmanaji. After that Lakshmanaji became the sovereign ruler of the three Khandas, and came to be called the eighth Vasudeva.
Six lacs of years had passed after the Twentieth Tirthankaras ascending to the position of Nirvana when Shri Naminathaji, the Twenty-first Tirthankara, was born in this world from the womb of Vipra-Devi on the eighth Full Moon day of Sravana. His father was Vijaya, king of Mathura. After living as a worldly man for a period of nine thousand years, Naminathaji accepted renunciation on the ninth Full Moon day of Ashadha. Eleven months after this he was entitled to attain Kevala-Jnana (Omniscience ). He practised an austere self-discipline for one thousand years, after which, when all his karmans were exhausted, he attained Liberation on the tenth Full Moon day of Vaishakha.
The tenth Chakravartin (emperor ) Harisena was a contemporary of Lord Naminatha. He was the son of king Mahahari ( of Kampilya ) and queen Meradevi. In the prime of his life he became an emperor. After enjoying all kinds of
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