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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.