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Svayambhūstotra
Svayambhū Svāmī.
Your adoration, O Lord Pārsvanātha, has the power to wash away the dirt of karmas that defiles our souls.
Lord Mahāvīra
The twenty-fourth Tīrthankara, Lord Mahāvīra, was born as 278 years passed after the birth of the twenty-third Tīrthankara, Lord Pārsvanātha. Lord Mahāvīra was born in the town of Kundalapura to Queen Priyakāriņi (Queen Trišalā) and King Siddhārtha on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the month of Caitra - caitra śukla trayodasi. His pious soul had descended from the Acyuta heaven (kalpa) where it enjoyed, for 22 sāgaropama, superhuman power, happiness, splendour, purity of thought-complexion, capacity of the senses, and range of clairvoyance.
The Lord's height was 7 hātha.
After spending 30 years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Mahāvīra, reflecting on His past incarnations, decided to tread the path that leads to the end of the cycle of births and deaths. He contemplated on the twelve conceptions (bāraha bhāvanā) – transitoriness (anitya), helplessness (aśaraņa), transmigration (samsāra),
ss (aikatva), distinctness (anyatva), impurity (aśuci), influx (āsrava), stoppage (samvara), dissociation (nirjarā), the universe (loka), rarity of enlightenment (bodhidurlabha), and Truth proclaimed by religion (dharma). The Lord renounced all worldly pursuits and decided to adopt the supremely worthy Jaina asceticism in order to tread the path to liberation. Laukāntika devas from Brahmaloka came down to worship Him. The Lord had, by birth, the first three kinds of knowledge, sensory (mati), scriptural (śruta) and clairvoyance (avadhi) and now He had acquired the fourth kind of knowledge – telepathy (manaḥparyaya). The Lord
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