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Svayambhūstotra
Vimalanātha spent 3 years (chadmasthakāla) performing karmadestroying austerities and then attained the all-embracing knowledge - Omniscience (kevalajñāna).
Lord Śītalanatha lived for 60 lakh years and attained liberation (nirvāna) from Sammeda Śikhara on the eighth day of the bright half of the month of Aṣāḍha - āṣāḍha śukla aṣṭami. The released pure Soul of the Lord darted up to the summit of the universe (Siddh Sila) to dwell there permanently in eternal bliss.
Chief among the Lord's Apostles (ganadhara) was sage Jaya Svāmi.
Guide me, O Lord Śītalanātha, to the Right Path that leads to emancipation from the miseries of the world.
Lord Anantanatha
When 9 sägaropama and 30 lakh years had lapsed after the birth of the thirteenth Tirthankara, Lord Vimalanatha, Ayodhya town of the Bharata region had King Simhasena as its ruler. Sarvayaśā was his lovely Queen. The pristine soul of the deva, characterized by white complexion (śukla leśya) and age of 22 sāgaropama, from the sixteenth heaven descended on to this earth to take birth as the fourteenth Tirthankara, Lord Anantanātha. He was born on the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Jyeṣṭha -jyeṣṭha kṛṣṇa dvādaśī.
The Lord grew to a height of 50 dhanusa.
After spending 72 lakh years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Anantanatha ruled His kingdom for 30 lakh years (rājyakāla).
One night Lord Anantanatha saw a falling star whose streak of light vanished in no time. He was filled with a deep sense of transitoriness of life and of world-flight. The deva-sages from the fifth heaven (Brahmaloka) came down to worship the Lord and to further exhort Him to take the final step that amounts to
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