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Sakama Marana which refers to someone who is not afraid of death and who accepts it willingly and at ease. They understand that there is no way to avoid death and that it is a natural process. Sakama Marana can be further divided into 4 types. These are Samadhi marana, anasana, santharo, and sallekhana.
An idol of Rishabha with mother Marudevi at Palitana Auspicious dreams as an ornamentation on cover of 19th-century manuscript. The enlivening of the embryo through the descent of the future Tīrthankara's soul in the mortal body is celebrated as Garbha Kalyānaka [2] At this time, Queen Marudevi dreamt fourteen auspicious dreams (Śvetāmbara belief) or sixteen auspicious dreams (Digambara ...
The name Neminatha consists of two Sanskrit words, Nemi which means "rim, felly of a wheel" or alternatively "thunderbolt", [5] and natha which means "lord, patron, protector". [ 6 ] According to the Jain text Uttarapurana , as well as the explanation of Acharya Hemchandra , it was the ancient Indian deity Indra who named the 22nd tirthankara ...
Ambika with Sarvana, LACMA, 6th century According to Jain texts, Ambika is said to have been an ordinary woman named Agnila who became a Goddess. [6] She lived in the city of Girinagar with her husband, Soma and her two children, Siddha and Buddha as per the Śvetāmbara tradition, or with her husband Somasarman and her two children, Shubhanakar and Prabhankara as per the Digambara tradition.
The aryika is not qualified, as such, to aspire for the pandita-pandita death, but she expects to reach it, from a male body, in a subsequent incarnation. The reason for this is to be found in the fact that a female body is not like a male body in all respects, so that salvation is not possible for a female from the female form.
Jain texts mention forty-six attributes of arihants or tirthankaras. These attributes comprise four infinitudes ( ananta chatushtaya ), thirty-four miraculous happenings ( atiśaya ), and eight splendours ( prātihārya ).
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According to the Jain sources, Krishna was the first cousin of Tirthankara Neminatha. Therefore, Krishna's adventures too occupy a significant portion of the book. Harivaṃśa Purāṇa suggests that Draupadi was married to only Arjuna, as opposed to Hindu traditional accounts which suggests that she was married to all the five Pandavas. [4]