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17.
KUNTHU was the son of Sura by Sri; of the same race and complexion as the last; was also born at Hastinapur. His śāsanade vi was Bala; his cognizance is a goat (chāga); his height was thirty five poles, and his life 95,000 years. His nirvāṇa is dated in the last palya of the fourth age.
18. ARA was son of Sudarsana by Devi; his mark is the figure called nandyāvarta; he was of the same race and complexion and born at the same place as the preceding; his sasanadevi was Dharini; his stature was thirty poles; his life lasted 84,000 years, and his nirvāṇa was 1,000 crores of years before the next Jina.
19.
MALLI was son of Kumbha by Prabhavati; of the same race with the preceding; but of blue complexion; his mark being a waterjar (ghata); he was born at Mithila, and his śāsanadevi was Dharanapriya; he was twenty-five pols high; lived 55,000 years, and was deified 6,584,000 years before the close of the fourth age.
20.
MUNISUVRATA, SUVRATA or MUNI was son of Sumitra by Padma, of the Harivamsa race, and of black complexion; he was born at Rajagrha; has a tortoise (kürma) for his cognizance, and Naradatta for his devi; his height was twenty poles, and his age 30,000 years. He died 1,184,000 years before the end of the fourth age.
21. NAMI was son of Vijaya by Vipra; born at Mithila; of the race of Iksvaku; with a golden complexion; having for his mark a blue water-lily (nilotpala), and his śāsanadevī, Gandhari. His stature was fifteen poles; his life 10,000 years, and his apotheosis took place, like the preceding eight Jinas, on Samet Sikhar or Mount Parsvanatha, 584,000 years before the expiration of the fourth age.
22. NEMI or ARISTANEMI was the son of king Samudravijaya by his queen Siva; of the Harivamsa race; of black complexion, with the conch (sankha) for his symbol, and Ambika for his śāsanadevī. The Kalpa Sutra says, "he was born at Soriyapuri (Agra) in Sravana, the first month of the rainy season, under the constellation Citra. He became an ascetic at the age of three hundred, at Dvaraka (Magadhi Baravave). He died on Mount Girnar, after living seven hundred years as an ascetic, in all a thousand years. He remained for fifty-five days only as an imperfect ascetic."18 The date of his death was 84,000 years before the close of the fourth age.
18 Stevenson, Kalpa Sutra, p. 98. At Ujjayanta, one of the peaks of Girnar is still sacred to Neminatha. In some lists this Jina is confounded with the preceding Naminatha,-in Stevenson's list the 21st is called Nami, and in Princep's Naminath is the 22nd Jina.
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