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भगवान अरिष्टनेमि युग के अनेक प्रसिद्ध तपस्वी क्षमावीर श्रमणों की घटनाएँ जैन इतिहास के पृष्ठों पर आज भी चमक रही हैं, जिनमें बाल मुनि गजसुकुमार, महान् तपस्वी ढंढण ऋषि, थावच्चा पुत्र श्रमण आदि की घटनाएँ बहुत ही प्रेरणाप्रद हैं।
भगवान अरिष्टनेमि का आषाढ़ शुक्ला अष्टमी को उज्जयंत पर्वत पर एक मास के अनशन के साथ मोक्ष
हुआ ।
अनेक इतिहासविज्ञ विद्वानों ने यह स्वीकार किया है कि वासुदेव श्रीकृष्ण के चचेरे भाई भगवान अरिष्टनेमि भी एक ऐतिहासिक पुरुष थे। उन्होंने भारतवर्ष में अहिंसा व करुणा का प्रचार किया। माँसाहार के विरुद्ध प्रचण्ड जन-जागृति पैदा की।
Prince Shankh was an accomplished diplomat and strategist. He planned and conducted his campaign in such a way that he apprehended the leader of bandits without any bloodshed. While he was on his way back he heard the cry of help of a young princess abducted by a Vidyadhar (a lower god); prince Shankh | पुष्पमाला challenged the Vidyadhar, defeated him and saved princess Yashomati When
22. BHAGAVAN ARISHTANEMI
विमल
The being that was to be Bhagavan Arishtanemi, in his earlier incarnation, was Shankh, the eldest son of king Shrishen of Hastinapur. One day some citizens and wayfarers came to the king and informed him that the highways approaching Hastinapur and the surrounding area were being terrorised by bandits and smugglers. No traveller or villager was safe from the attack of these bandits. Robbery and murder became a daily routine for them. The citizens requested the king to protect the masses. The king deputed prince Shankh to go and punish the bandits..
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these young people saw each other they fell in love and got married. In due course prince Shankh ascended the throne.
पद्मप्रभ
Once a scholarly ascetic visited Hastinapur. King Shankh went for his Darshan, and asked him, "Why am I so deeply in love with Yashomati that all my desires to renunciate come to a nought." The ascetic said, "Your marital ties are many a life-time deep. For last six lives you are being married to each other, this is the seventh birth. That is the reason for such intense and deep feeling of love for each other."
The king asked, "When these ties will be broken?"
The scholarly ascetic replied, "In your ninth incarnation you will be born as Neminath and she as Rajimati. In that birth you will be able to break this tie of
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