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Prince Vi khabh ti son of Vi vabh ti Heavenly being Mah ukra Vasudeva Tripa As Trip a having accumulated bad karmas, born as a 7 hellinhabitant He was a lion A hell inhabitant in fourth hell Priyamitra (Po ila) cakravart, Heavenly being in Mah ukrakalpa King Nandana he obtained the T rthamkara gotra. Heavenly being of the Pu pottaravim na in Prata heaven According to the Samav y mgas tra, Nandana's soul entered Dev nand 's womb.
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Hari aigame (heavenly being) transferred this fetus of 26th birth from the womb of Dev nand to that of Tri al and he was born as Varddham na, which is considered his twenty-seventh birth. Thus, conception in two wombs is considered two separate births.
In the Digambara tradition, Lord Mah v ra had 33 births. Despite this, both traditions seem dissimilar in terms of number of past lives and names therein, an important fact is unanimously agreed upon that after endless cycle of births with the obtaining of right belief and through destruction of karmas Nayas ra's soul became firm on the path of rise and self progress. By binding himself to bad karmas he had to wander through several births and in the end, as Nandana with best thinking, reflection and feelings and the highest quality of sacrifice, penance, restraint, detachment, devotion he obtained the highest T rthamkara n makarma.
The Lord obtained the T rthamkara n makarma in the birth of king Nandana; that past birth is briefly described as under:
In his twenty-fourth birth Lord Mah v ra was king Nandana. The son of king Jita atru of Chatr city, Nandana renounced royal splendour inspired by the sermon of Po il c rya and took initiation and in a life of restraint for one-lakh years, he observed constant fasts, totaling eleven lakh, and sixty thousand m sa- khama a fasts. The fast-breaking time was totally three thousand three hundred and thirty three months and twenty-nine days. Because of arihanta devotion of twenty instruments he
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