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No, 2. Kevali Bhagavān Ārya Jambū Swami.
Sthavira Jambū Swami was appointed as the Supreme Head of the Church, when Sthavira Sudharmā Swāmi became a Kévali in Mahāyira Samvat 12 or in 515 B. C.
Jambu Kumāra was the son of a very wealthy banker named *7470 Rışabha Datta of Rājagriha THTE. His mother's name was erfront Dhāriņi.
It is said:
गल्येऽपि केऽपि वैराग्याद् गृहीत्वा धर्ममादरात् ।
जम्बकुमारवन्मुक्तिसातभाजो भवन्ति हि ॥ १॥ 1 Bälyé'pi ké’pi vairāgyād grihïtvā dharmamādarāt,
Jambū kumāravanmuktisătabhājo bhavantı hı 1. Some persons having carefully practised Å DharmaReligious rites,-ɔut of indifference to worldly objects even during their childhood, certainly become the enjoyers of the happiness of af to Mukti-Final Emancipation,-like Jambū Kumāra.
When Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira came ts Rājagriha UITK Nagari, god fag-ara Vidyunmāli went there for the purpose of giving his respects to the Ommscient Lord. On seeing that the god Vidyunmālis beauty was more brilliant than that of all other gods, King Śréņika, folding his two hands in respectful salutation, requested śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira to explain him the cause of his surpassing brilliance, and, also, as to what religious austerities he must have practised during his previous life.
śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, narrated the account of the previous life of Vidyunmāli. After hearing it, King Śréņika said “O Lord ! on leaving his diyine existence, where will god Vidyunmāli be born in his future life?
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