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Along with Mahavira, Parshvanatha and Rishabhanatha, Neminath is one of the twenty-four Tirthankars who attract the most devotional worship among the Jains. His icons include the eponymous deer as his emblem, the Mahavenu tree, Sarvanha (Digambara) or Gomedha (Śhvētāmbara) Yaksha, and Ambika Yakshi.
Tree Attendant spirits Male disciple; Female disciple Place of Nirvana Birth 1 ... Neminath: Aparajitadevaloka Sauripura; Girnar: Samudravijaya by Shivadevi Black
Naminatha (Devanagari: नमिनाथ) (Sanskrit: नमिनाथः) was the twenty-first tirthankara of the present half time cycle, Avsarpini.He was born to the King Vijaya and Queen Vipra of the Ikshvaku dynasty.
Neminath Temple on Girnar's highest peak (Neminath Shikhar), in 1964, before its conversion to Dattatreya Temple. A Jain pilgrim reads scriptures in the Neminath temple, sitting before the foot idol of Neminatha with a full ancient idol carved in padmasana posture behind it, prior to the temple's conversion into the Dattatreya Hindu temple.
Tirumalai (lit. "the holy mountain"; also later Arhasugiri, lit. "the excellent mountain of the Arha[t]"; Tamil Engunavirai-Tirumalai, lit. "the holy mountain of the Arhar" is a Jain temple and cave complex dating from at least the 9th century CE that is located northwest of Polur in Tamil Nadu, southeast India. [1]
Parshvanatha meditated for 84 days before he attained omniscience under a dhaataki tree near Benares. [44] His meditation period included asceticism and strict vows. Parshvanatha's practices included careful movement, measured speech, guarded desires, mental restraint and physical activity, essential in Jain tradition to renounce the ego. [ 43 ]
He is also associated with his Bull emblem, the Nyagrodha tree, Gomukha (bull-faced) Yaksha, and Chakreshvari Yakshi. [ 79 ] Statue of Ahimsa , carved out of a single rock, is a 108 feet (33 m) tall (121 feet (37 m) including pedestal) statue of Rishabhanatha and is 1,840 sq feet in size.
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