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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsun Gyanmandir
the three are in high position, then me a king. If the five planets are in high position.
respectively. If of the seven planets the three are in high pos the person will become a king. If the five planets a then he will become a quasi-universal-ruler. If the six planets are in high position, then he will become a universal ruler. If the seven planers are in high position, then he will attain tirthankarahood.
Thus commentators of the Kalpasutra note that all the seven planets are in the high position in the horoscope of Lord Mahavira. Taking inte account all the available information we feel that in the dave of Acharangasutra the Zodiac signs were not in vogue, that afterwards at the time of composition of the Kalpasutra in astrology the use of the Zodiac signs might have become prevalent. If this is the case, then it cannot be maintained that this horoscope of Lord Mahavira was prepared at the time of his birth.
Relatives of Tirthankara Mahavira in his Different Births
Tirthankara Mahavira had innumerable previous births. But the birth as Nayasara is regarded as his first previous birth because it was the birth in which he attained the right and wholesome spiritual self - realisation (samyaktva). After that birth, Tirthankara Mahavira had some important previous births, the remaining being unimportant are not counted as his previous births. Apart from his fifth, thirteenth, fifteenth and twenty-first previous births other births were unimportant. His birth as Mahavira is the twenty-seventh and the last birth. Of the twenty six previous births, in thirteen he was born as a human being, in ten as a god, in two as infernal being and in one as an animal. In the following previous births he was born as a human being - the first, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth (Triprushtha Vasudeva), twenty-second. twenty-third (Universal rule Priyamitra) and twenty-fifth (Muni Nandana). In the following previous births he was born as a god - the second, fourth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-fourth and twem sixth; and the corresponding heavenly worlds were Saudharma, Brahma Saudharma, Ishana, Sanatkumara, Mahendra, Brahma, M
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