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[The Twenty-two Tirthankaras
Only a short time after Arishta Nemi Natha had attained Liberation, King Brahama's wife Chulani gave birth to a son named Brahamadutta, who became the twelfth emperor afterwards. He indulged himself in sensual pleasures and descended to the seventh Narka (Hell) after his death.
The twenty third Tirthankara was Lord Parsva Natha. He was born in Banerasi, on the tenth Full-Moon-day of Pausha, eighty three thousand seven hundred fifty years after the twenty second Tirthankara's attaining Liberation. His father was king Ashvasena and mother Vamadevi. He lived as a worldly man for thirty years. After this, when he realised this world to be the source of all troubles, he accepted renunciation on the eleventh Full-Moon day of Pausha in a garden near his own capital. Eighty four days after his entering the order of monks he attained Kevala Jnana ( omniscience ) on the fourth Full-Moon day of Chaitra. He practised a severe discipline for seventy years, and when he had destroyed all his karmans by means of austerities and self discipline, he left this material world and entered in to the region of everlasting spiritual Bliss. It has been conjectured that Parsha Natha lived in the eighth century before Christ. In their research the historians have easily reached the Parshva era. Parshva Natha, too, had to endure an Upasarga (Super natural affliction ) at the time of his renunciation. In his previous life he was indebted for his karmans to a god named Megha Mali; and it was this Megha Mali who inflicted upon him Jalopasarga (trouble caused by water).
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