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Lord Mahavira
13. Vimala
9 sagaras
Golden Boar Golden Falcon
605 -50...”
year
14. Ananta
4 sagaras
15. Dharma
Golden Thunderbolt 45
60 lakh of 30 lakh of
year 10 lakh of
year 1 lakh of
year 95,000
year
3 sagaras less
3/4 palya 1/2 palya
16. Santi
Golden Antelope 40 Golden Goat 35
" W
17. Kunthu
18. Ara
Golden Nandya
" 84,000 years
30 vasta 25 20
14 palya less 6,000 krores
of year 1,000 krores less 6,584,000 years 54 lakhs of year 9 lakhs of years
Blue Black
Jar Tortoise
" 55,000 years " 30,000 years
19. Malli 20. Munisuvrata
(or Suvrata) 21. Nami 22. Arishtanemi
(or Nemi) 23. Parsva
5 lakhs of years
84,000 years
Golden Blue Lotus 15 " 10,000 years Black Conch 10 " 1,000 years
nell Blue Hooded 9 hastas 100 years
Snake Golden Lion 7 "
72 years
250 years
24. Mahâvîra
The above table is self-explanatory except for the appearance of certain technical terms and statistical units. The Srivatsa, the emblem of the tenth Tîrthankara, is a curl of hair on the breast, well known as a mark of Vishnu too. The Nandyavarta, the symbol of the eighteenth Tîrthankara, is a mark resembling a swastika. 14 As used by the Jains, the units of number and measure, including also a few appearing elsewhere in the present chapter, are as follows. In some cases different authorities give different values.
Numbers
llakh (Sankrit, laksha) = 100,00015 1krore (Sankrit, koti) = 100 lakhs = 10,000,00016
1kotikoti = 10,000,000 x 10,000,000 = 100,000,000,000,00017 Measures of Length and Distance
1 hasta = 18 inches 18 1 dhanus = 4 hastas = 72 inches = 6 feet19 1 krosa = 8,000 hastas = 12,000 feet = 24/4 miles20 1 yojana = 4 krosas = 9 miles21
