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COMPASSIONATE BHAGAVAN MAHAVIR
After completing its age in the Mahashukra dimension this being was born as the son of king Jitshatru and queen Bhadra of 26 Raksha city in Bharat area. His name was Nandan. One day when he saw the ever changing hue and colour of the evening atmosphere he was overwhelmed with feelings of detachment.
As the colour of the evening sky is changing every moment, this life, its pleasures, indulgences and span too are momentary.
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He spent all his time engrossed in meditation and penance. Ascetic Nandan did a harsh penance of 1180645 onemonth-fasts one after the other for a hundred thousand
years. His body became frail and emaciated.
For details see Tirthankar Charitra, a Diwakar Publication.
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He acquired the Tirthankar-naam-karma by repeatedly doing twenty auspicious practices (The Bees-Sthanak).
Pursuit of knowledge/
Meditation
Serrnon propagation
Sermon
worship
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Application of knowledge
Penitent worship
Scholar
worship
Prince Nandan became an ascetic.
Purity of perception
Arihant
Care of ascetics
Humility
Ascetic
worship
Detachment
Siddha
worship
worship
practices Essential
worship Discourse
Guru worship
Penance
conduct
Codes of
for purity
Craving
He took the ultimate vow of a sixty day fast and breathed his
last. He reincamated as a god in the tenth dimension of gods.
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