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dhanusa. After spending 1272 lakh pūrva as youth (kumārakāla), He became a King and reigned for a period of 36 lakh 50 thousand pūrva and 8 pūrānga (rājyakāla).
Lord Abhinandananātha lived for 50 lakh pūrva and attained liberation (nirvāņa) from Sammeda Sikhara on the seventh day of the bright half of the month of Vaišākha – vaiśākha sukla saptamī.
The Chief Apostle of Lord Abhinandananātha was Vajracamara Svāmī.
I bow to Lord Abhinandananātha, the Most Worshipful God Almighty
Lord Sumatinātha
When six months of the 33 sāgaropama life of the Ahamindra in the super-heaven Jayanta were remaining, the lord of the first heaven Saudharma (Indra) ordered his subordinate devas to start the process of glorification of the next Tīrthankara in the Sāketa town of the Bharata region. The lord of the celestial treasury, Kubera, then began to rain down, for six months, choice gems in the palace of King Meghaprabha to pronounce the coming of the World Teacher.
Six months later, Queen Sumangalā saw the most auspicious sixteen dreams and the devas came down to rejoice and celebrate the garbha kalyāņaka of the Lord of the Lords, Bhagavān Sumatinātha. Nine months later, on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Srāvana – śrāvaņa śukla ekādaśī – the devas descended again from the heavens to join men and women to celebrate the birth of the Tīrthankara Child. They performed with great delight the abhişeka ceremony of the new-born Divine Child at Mount Meru and thereafter Śaci, the principal devī of the first heaven, decorated the person of the Lord of the three worlds. Great celebrations followed in the royal palace of King Meghaprabha;
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