Abhinandananatha

Abhinandananatha

Abhinandananatha

Fourth Tirthankara in Jainism

Abhinandananatha or Abhinandana Swami was the fourth Tirthankara of the present age (Avasarpini). He is said to have lived for 50 lakh purva. He was born to King Sanvara and Queen Siddhartha at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku clan. His birth date was the second day of the Magh shukla month of the Indian calendar. According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its Karma.

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Life

Abhinandananatha or Abhinandana Swami was the fourth Tirthankara of the present age (Avasarpini).[1] He is said to have lived for 50 lakh purva.[2] He was born to King Samvara and Queen Siddhartha at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku clan.[3] His birth date was the second day of the Magh shukla month of the Indian calendar.[1] He attained Kevala Jnana under priyangu tree.[4] According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its Karma.[citation needed] According to Jain tradition, his height was 350 dhanusha (1,050 meters).[5]

Adoration

Svayambhustotra by Jain monk, Acarya Samantabhadra is the adoration of twenty-four tirthankaras. Its five slokas (aphorisms) adore the qualities of Abhinandananātha.[6] One such sloka is:

By constantly feeding the body to subdue inflictions like hunger, and by indulging in transient pleasures of the senses, neither the body nor the soul remains unscathed. Such deeds thus benefit neither the body nor the soul; O Lord Abhinandananātha, you had thus expounded the true nature of reality.[7]

Abhinandananatha is associated with Ape emblem, Piyala tree, Yakshesvara & Nayaka Yaksha and Vajrasrinkala & Kalika Yakshi.[8]

Main temples

  • Chaturmukha Basadi, Gerusoppa
  • Abhinandananatha temple, Golakot
  • Abhinandanoday Teerth Kshetra, Lalitpur

See also

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Tukol 1980, p. 31.
  2. [2]
    Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 185.
  3. [3]
    Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 184.
  4. [4]
    Krishna & Amirthalingam 2014, p. 46.
  5. [5]
    Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 184-185.
  6. [6]
    Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 22-24.
  7. [7]
    Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 24.
  8. [8]
    Tandon 2002, p. 44.

References

  • Johnson, Helen M. (1931), Abhinandanacaritra (Book 3.2 of the Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra), Baroda Oriental Institute
  • Jain, Vijay K. (2015), Acarya Samantabhadra's Svayambhustotra: Adoration of The Twenty-four Tirthankara, Vikalp Printers, ISBN 978-81-903639-7-6, archived from the original on 16 September 2015, Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Krishna, Nanditha; Amirthalingam, M. (2014) [2013], Sacred Plants of India, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-9-351-18691-5
  • Tandon, Om Prakash (2002) [1968], Jaina Shrines in India (1 ed.), New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, ISBN 81-230-1013-3
  • Tukol, T. K. (1980), Compendium of Jainism, Dharwad: University of Karnataka
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