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Lord r Anantan tha
Following Lord Vimalan tha, r Anantan tha became the 14th T rthamkara. In his previous incarnation r Anantan tha was Padmaratha, the king of Ari city in Dh tak kha da. He was a courageous and brave king. Though he conquered the entire earth by his prowess yet after a while he took initiation from the preceptor Cittarak a and became immersed in the attainment of liberation. By the strength of his austerities and restraint he attained the T rthamkara n makarma. At the end, leaving his material body, in pure meditation, he became a powerful god in the tenth heaven.
On the seventh day of the dark half of the rava a month under Revat constellation, his soul left the heaven and entered the womb of Suya, queen of king Simhasena of Ayodhya. The mother saw the 14 auspicious dreams and at the end of her pregnancy period delivered a son on the 13 day of the dark half of Vai kha month under constellation Revat. After celebrating the birth of the son for ten days, the king, thinking that 'when the child was in the womb, a huge and difficult army that came to attack had been won over', named the son Anantan tha.
Completing 7 lakh 50 thousand years of his life as a boy when Anantan tha became a young man the king got him married to suitable women and seated him on the royal throne. Having ruled the kingdom justly for 15 lakh years, he resolved to become a monk on prayers by the lok ntika gods. He gave charities for a year and on the 14h day of the dark half of the month Vai kha under Revat constellation, along with 1000 other kings, got initiated as a monk, and renounced all past bad deeds. He observed a fast (bel ) which he broke the next day at the home of the king of Varddham napura, Vijaya Bh pa, with rice pudding.
After wandering as a mendicant for three years, Lord Anantan tha reached Sahasr mravana and became meditative under the A oka tree. In the second stage of deep meditation through k apaka re , relieving himself of passions broke all obscuring karmas, and on the 14" day of the dark fortnight of Vai kha under Revat constellation, through a fast, attained pure knowledge. Upon attaining pure knowledge, Lord Anantan tha gave religious sermon and establishing the four-fold creed. He became the T rthamkara of the period. When he was close to Dw rik , the Vasudeva of that period Puru ottama and the Baladeva
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