Padam Prabhu Swami

Jain Tirthankar

 

 

Padamprabhu Swami

 

Name

Padamprabhu Swami
Symbol Lotus
Father Sridhar Raja
Mother Sushima Rani
Family Name Ikshvaku
Source of Descent Ninth Graiveyak
Date of Descent Magh Krishna Paksh-8

Place of Birth

Kaushambi

Date of Birth

Kartik Krishna Paksh-12

Place of Enlightenment

Kaushambi

Date of Diksha

Kartik Krishna Paksh-13

Date of Enlightenment

Chaitra Shukla Paksh-15

Place of Nirvana

Sammetshikhar

Date of Nirvana

Mangsar Krishna Paksh-11

Period of Practices

6 Months

Age

30 Lac Purva

Chief Disciple

Suvrat

Number of Disciples

107

Number of Ascetics

3.3 Lac

Head of Female Ascetics

Rati

Number of Female Ascetics

4.2 Lac

Male Laity

2.76 Lac

Female Laity

5.05 Lac

Body Colour

Red

God of Organisation

Kusum

Goddess of Organisation

Shyama

 

Maharaj Aparajit ruled over Susima town in the Purvavideh area. He was a simple and religious person. He got detached after listening to the discourse of an Arhat and took Diksha from Acharya Pihitashrava. As a result of long spiritual practices he earned Tirthankar-nam-and-gotra-karma. Completing his age, he reincarnated as a god in the Graiveyak dimension.

From the dimension of gods, the being that was Aparajit descended into the womb of queen Susima, wife of the king Kaushambi. One day queen Susima had a desire to sleep on a bed made up of lotus flowers. As this was a desire of a pregnant mother, the gods made arrangements for its fulfillment. On the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Kartik the queen gave birth to a son. The new born had a soft pink glow like lotus flowers. The king named him as Padmaprabh.

In due course the prince became young and was married. When his father left for spiritual practices, Padmaprabh ascended the throne. After a long and successful reign, when through his three fold knowledge he knew that the right moment has come, he became an ascetic. After six months of spiritual practices, on the full moon day of the month of Chaitra he attained omniscience under a banyan tree. Propagating right religion for a long time, Bhagavan Padmaprabh wandered around and at last arrived at Sammetshikhar. He got Nirvana on the eleventh day of the dark half of the month of Margshirsh.

 

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