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Ajitanatha

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Ajitanatha
2nd Jain Tirthankara
Ajitanatha
Idol of Tirthankar Ajitnath at Taranga Jain Temple, Gujarat, India
Venerated inJainism
PredecessorRishabhanatha
SuccessorSambhavanatha
SymbolElephant
Height450 bows
Age72 lakh purvas (508.032 x 1018 years old)
TreeSaptaparna (Alstonia scholaris)
ColorGolden
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Born
Ayodhya
Parents
  • Jitaśatru (father)
  • Vijayādevī (mother)
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Ajitanatha (lit. invincible) was the second tirthankara of the present age, avasarpini (half time cycle) according to Jainism. He was born to king Jitashatru and Queen Vijaya at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku dynasty. He was a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma.

In Jain texts

Ajitnatha (lit. invincible)[1] was the second tirthankara of the present age, avasarpini (half time cycle in Jain cosmology) according to Jainism.[2]

Ajitnatha was born in the town of Saketa to King Jitashatru and Queen Vijaya at Ayodhya (Vinita-Saketa)[3] in the Ikshvaku dynasty on magha-shukla-dashmi (the tenth day of the bright half of the month of Magha).[2] His height was 450 dhanusha. He lived for a span of 72 lakh purva.[1]

According to Hemachandra, he was named Ajita because the king father was unable to defeat his mother in gambling until he was in her womb. Uttarapurana, a Digambara text, explains that he was named Ajita because he could not be defeated by sins or all heretics.[3]

He attained kevala jnana under the saptaparna tree (Alstonia scholaris)[3] and Moksha on chaitra-shukla-panchmi (fifth day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra) from Shikharji.[4][1][3]

He had 90 Ganadharas and Simhasena was his chief among them. Falgu (according to Swetambara tradition) or Prakubja (according to Digambara tradition) was a chief of the his order of the nuns.[1][3]

The Yajurveda mentions the name of Ajitanatha, but the meaning is not clear. According to Jain traditions, his younger cousin brother was Sagara. Sagara, who became the second Chakravartin, is known from the traditions of both Hindu and Jain scriptures.[5][3]

Iconography

Swetambara as well as Digambara sects consider his complexion golden and elephant as his symbol.[3] He is associated with saptaparna tree; Mahayaksha as attendant Yaksha; and Ajita (as per Swetambra) or Rohini (as per Digambara) as attendant Yakshis.[6][3] The elephant, symbol of Ajitanatha, is a vahana (mount) of the Mahayakshya and Ajita Yakshi seems named after Ajitanatha.[3]

In literature, art and architecture

Literature

Major temples

See also

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References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. 183.
  2. ^ a b Tukol 1980, p. 31.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Shah, Umakant Premanand (1987). Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana [Jaina Iconography]. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. p. 128. ISBN 978-81-7017-208-6.
  4. ^ Krishna & Amirthalingam 2014, p. 46.
  5. ^ Jain, Kailash Chandra, Antiquity of Jainism, Jainism Literature Center
  6. ^ Tandon 2002, p. 44.
  7. ^ Cort 2001, p. 236.

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