Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
It is impossible to deal with all the details of the lives of Jaina Tirthankaras. A friend in India showed me a mammoth map, recording in tabular form sixty-four points concerning each of the twenty-four Tirthankaras. I wonder if the map will ever be complete and published ! I content myself with giving (in the folding Table annexed) after the name of each Tirthankara nine points concerning his life in the following order : his father's name; his mother's name; birthplace; nakshatra, or the zodiacal sign of his birth; his height; his colour; his age; the number of his ganadhurus, or apostles; his place of nirvāņa; the sign or emblem on his statues or images; and the interval between him and the next Tirthařkara.