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name, age, color, height, and interval (between Tirthankaras), initiation and future condition of existence, O Lord.”
Future Tirthankaras (276-325) Then the Blessed One related : "In Bharata there will be twenty-three other Arhats and eleven other Cakrins. The twentieth and twenty-second Jinas will belong to the Gotama-family; all the other attainers of nirvāṇa will spring from the Kaśyapa-family. Ajita, the son of Jitaśatru and Vijayā, in Ayodhyā, living for seventy-two lacs of purvas, gold-color, four hundred and fifty bows tall, will be an initiate for a lac of pūrvas less a pūrvānga. So there will be an interval of fifty lacs of crores of sāgaropamas between my nirvāṇa and that of Ajita. In Srāvasti, Sambhava, the son of Jitāri and Senā, gold-color, living for sixty lacs of pūrvas, four hundred bows tall, will be in the vow for a lac of pūrvas less four pūrvāngas. The interval will be thirty lacs of crores of sāgaropamas. In the city Vinitā, Abhinandana, son of Samvara and Siddharthā, living for fifty lacs of pūrvas, three hundred and fifty bows tall, gold-color, will be under vows a lac of pūrvas less eight pūrvangas, and the interval will be ten lacs of crores of sāgaropamas.
In that city, Sumati, son of Megha and Mangalā, gold-color, living for forty lacs of pūrvas, three hundred bows tall, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less twelve pūrvāngas, and the interval will be nine lacs of crores of sāgaropamas. In Kaušāmbi, Padmaprabha, the son of Dhara and Susīmā, red color, living for thirty lacs of pūrvas, two hundred and fifty bows tall, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less sixteen pūrvāngas, and the interval will be ninety thousand crores of sagaras. In Vārāṇasí, Supārsva, the son of Pratiştha and Prthvi, gold-color, living for twenty lacs of pūrvas, two hundred bows tall, will be in the vow for a lac of pūrvas less twenty angas, and the interval will be nine thousand
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