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Svayambhūstotra
Lord Śreyānsanātha attained liberation (nirvāṇa) from Sammeda Sikhara on the full-moon day of the bright half of the month of Śrāvaņa – śrāvaņa śukla pūrņimā.
The Chief Apostle of Lord Śreyānsanātha was the accomplished sage Dharma Svāmī.
Lord Śreyānsanātha lived for 42 lakh years. I join the lords of the devas in worshipping Lord Śreyānsanātha.
Lord Vāsupūjya
Saudharma Indra, the lord of the first heaven, knew through his clairvoyance (avadhijñāna) that only 6 months of the total life of slightly more than 16 sāgaropama remained of the deva in the Mahāśukra heaven and that he was destined to take birth as the twelfth Tīrthankara in Campāpurī town of the Bharata region. He pronounced that the Tīrthankara would grace the earth by entering the womb of Queen Vijayā, wife of King Vasupūjya. Saudharma Indra ordered his subordinate devas to start the process of celebrating the garbha kalyāņaka of this most extraordinary and pious Supreme Being. Kubera spruced up the town and started raining down gems in the royal palace of King Vasupūjya to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. In due course, Queen Vijayā 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 Vāsupūjya. Nine months later, on the fourteenth day of the bright half of the month of Phālguna - phālguna sukla caturdaśī - the devas and devis descended again from the heavens to join men and women to celebrate the birth of the Tīrthankara Child (janma kalyāṇaka). This grand occasion arrived after 54 sāgaropama and 12 lakh years of the birth of the eleventh Tīrthařkara, Lord Śreyānsanātha.
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