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Svayambhūstotra
The Lord attained the height of 45 dhanusa.
After spending 242 lakh years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Dharmanātha ruled His kingdom for 5 lakh years (rājyakāla).
Lord Dharmanātha developed a deep sense of renunciation for the world as He once saw the momentary existence of a meteoroid. He adopted the path that leads to beatitude. Lord Dharmanātha spent 1 year (chadmasthakāla) performing karma-destroying austerities and then attained the all-embracing knowledge - Omniscience (kevalajñāna).
Lord Dharmanātha lived for 10 lakh years and attained liberation (nirvāņa) from Sammeda Śikhara on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month of Jyeștha - jyeștha krşņa caturdaśī. The released pure Soul of the Lord, having eight supreme qualities, made the Siddh silā, situated at the summit of the universe, as its permanent abode.
Chief among the Lord's Apostles (ganadhara) was sage Sena Svāmī.
O Lord Dharmanātha! You had rightly expounded that absorption in the Self is the supreme kind of austerity.
Lord śāntinātha
The sixteenth Tīrthankara, Lord śāntinātha, was born as threefourths of a palyopama deducted from 3 sāgaropama and 9 lakh years passed after the birth of the fifteenth Tīrthankara, Lord Dharmanātha.
Lord śāntinātha was born in the town of Hastināpura, on the twelfth day of the bright half of the month of Jyeștha - jyestha sukla dvādaśī – to Queen Airā and King Visvasena. His pious soul had descended from the Sarvārthasiddhi super-heaven after living there for 33 sāgaropama.
The Lord attained the height of 40 dhanușa. After spending 25,000 years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord
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