Padmaprabha
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Padmaprabha, also known as Padmaprabhu, was the sixth Jain Tirthankara of the present age (Avsarpini).[1] According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha - a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma.
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6th Jain Tirthankara | |
Other names | Padmaprabhu |
Devanagari | पद्मप्रभ |
Venerated in | Jainism |
Predecessor | Sumatinatha |
Successor | Suparshvanatha |
Symbol | Lotus |
Height | 250 bows (750 meters) |
Age | 3,000,000 purva (211.68 Quintillion years) |
Color | Red |
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In the Jain tradition, it is believed that Padmaprabha was born to King Shridhar and Queen Susimadevi in the Ikshvaku dynasty at Kausambi[1] which is in today's Uttar Pradesh, India. Padmaprabha means ‘bright as a red lotus’ in Sanskrit. It is said in Śvetāmbara sources that his mother had a fancy for a couch of red lotuses – padma – while he was in her womb.[2]
His birth date was the twelfth day of the Kartik krishna month of the Indian calendar.[citation needed] On the eleventh day of the dark half of the month of Margashirsh, Bhagwan Padmaprabha, along with other 308 saints was liberated and attained moksha on Sammet Shikhar (mountain).