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Lord r Sup r van tha
The seventh T rthamkara after Lord Padmaprabha was r Sup r van tha. In his previous incarnation Lord Sup r van tha was king Nandisena of K emapur. Taking initiation into the right path from
c rya Aridamana, he gained the n makarma of T rthamkara by venerating the 20 causes /reflections. Eventually, at the end of his life, he became a powerful god in the sixth Graiveyaka heaven. Completing his term in the Graiveyaka, on the eighth day of the dark fortnight of Bh drapada month under constellation Vi kh , he entered the womb of P thv , the queen of King Prati hasena of V r as . That same night the queen saw the 14 dreams indicating the birth of a great person and at the end of her pregnancy period, she happily gave birth to a son on the 12" day of the bright half of the Jye ha month under the constellation Vi kh.
On the 12th day at the time of the naming ceremony, recounting that the mother should maintain her rear beautiful during pregnancy, the king named the son Sup r van tha. At marriageable age, Sup r van tha was married off to suitable women and thereafter, he was crowned king. The Lord enjoyed the king's position for some 14 lakh p rvas or more directing subjects on the path of righteousness and justice.
After ruling for a long time, considering useless the sensual karmas, he wished to accept the spiritual path. Upon request by the lok ntika gods, he gave charities for one year, and on the 13th day of the bright half of Jye ha, took initiation along with 1000 other kings. Having fasted he pulled out five fistfuls of hair in the garden and getting rid of all faults forever, became a monk. Next day his first fast-breaking happened at the house of Mahendra, the king of Palikha da.
He wandered about for 9 months observing various austerities as a mendicant. Then, reaching Sahasr mravana, entered into deep meditation. Destroying the four obscuring karmas such as knowledge deluding, he attained pure knowledge and pure intuition on the sixth day of the bright fortnight of F Iguna under Vi kh constellation. On becoming a keval he gave religious discourse at a grand assembly attended by gods and men, explaining the difference between inanimate and animate, said all things in the apparent world, including even the
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