Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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MODERN JAINISM,
(14) ANANTANA'THA ( 24197119), whose sign is a hawk
[? Digambara : a bear ). (15) DHARMANA’THA (474914), whose sign is a thunder
bolt. (16) S'A’NTINA’THA ( 21 ford1%), whose sign is a deer.* (17) KUNTHUNA’THA ( 4914, whose sign is a goat. (18) ARANA'THA (3420114), whose sign is a step-well [?]+ (19) MALLINA'THA (H[E6414, whose sign is a water jar.
This the Svetāmbara believe to have been the only woman Tirthankara.f The Digambara of course do not hold this, as they do not think a
woman can attain Moksa. (20) MUNISUVRATA (Cygn), whose sign is the tortoise. (21) NAMINA'THA (4749114), whose sign is the blue lotus
[Digambara : As'oka tree). (22) NEMINA’THA (49114, whose sign is the conch shell,
and to whom Mt. Girnār (in Kāthiāwād) is
specially sacred. (29) PA'rs'VANAT'HA (421914), whose sign is the serpent. (24) MAHA'VIRA (H8141?), whose sign is the lion, the most
famous of all the Tirthankara, and whose life we
have already given. Besides Mahāvira, the favourite Tirthankara are Pārs - vanātha, Neminātha, Sāntinātha and the first, Risabhadeva.
* Dr. Burgess loc, cit. gives antelope. + Dr. Burgess gives the Nandyāvarta diagram.
Some twenty-five years ago her image was found in Bhoyani in Gujarat ; and this has given the place such sanctity that, though quite a small village, it has been chosen as the place of meeting of the S'vetambara Conference of 1910.