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Appendix-2
Lord Śreyānsanātha
When 100 sāgaropama and 1 crore 50 lakh 26 thousand years subtracted from 1 crore sāgaropama and 1 lakh pūrva (1 crore sāgaropama + 1 lakh pūrva - (100 sāgaropama + 1,50,26,000 years)] had lapsed after the birth of the tenth Tīrthankara, Lord Śītalanātha, Sinhapurī town of the Bharata region was being ruled by King Vişnu Narendra. His worthy Queen was Veņudevī. One night the Queen dreamt the sixteen most auspicious dreams, heralding that she was going to be the Mother of the Lord of the Lords. On the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Phālguna - phālguna śukla ekādaśī – the Queen gave birth to the Tīrthankara Child. The devas and the men rejoiced the arrival of the eleventh Tīrthankara, Lord Śreyānsanātha.
The Divine Child grew to a height of 80 dhanușa.
After spending 21 lakh years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Śreyānsanātha ruled His kingdom for 42 lakh years (rājyakāla).
Once Lord Śreyānsanātha observed in the royal park that trees had shed all their flowers and leaves with the change of the season. He was filled with a sense of detachment from the world and decided to accept the great vows and austerities. The deva-sages - Laukāntika devas* - from the fifth heaven (Brahmaloka) descended from their abodes to worship the Lord and to strengthen Him in His resolve to say good bye to worldly occupations.
Lord Śreyānsanātha spent 2 years (chadmasthakāla) performing karma-destroying austerities after which He attained the allembracing knowledge - Omniscience (kevalajñāna). The time period of Lord's renunciation (samyamakāla) was 21 lakh years. He expounded the true nature of reality and the path to liberation.
*lokānta' means at the end of samsāra. Laukāntika devas are at the end of transmigration; from the fifth heaven (Brahmaloka) they come down once in the middle world in the region of labour and attain liberation.
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