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Bhagavan Parshvanath
Cintamani Parshvanath
Nearly 1200 years old.
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(23rd Tirthankara)
Name
..................................Parshva Nathji
Father's Name .................................Asvasena
Mother's Name .............................. .Vama
Birth Place
.............................. .Varanasi (Kasi)
Birth Thithi
.............................. ..Paush ku. 10
Diksha Thithi .............................. ..Chaitra ku.4
Kevalgyan Thithi ......................... ..Chaitra ku.4
Naksharta
.............................. ...Trivisakha
Diksha Sathi ............................... . 300
Shadhak Jeevan .......................... 70 years
Age Lived
............................. . .100 years
Lakshan Sign ............................... Nag
Neervan Place ............................ .. Sameed Shikar
Neervan Sathi ............................. 33
Neervan Thithi ............................. Shravan su.8
Colour
............................. Blue
Thirthankara Parshvanath
was the son of King Asvasena and Queen Vama of Varanasi. At the age of
thirty he renounced the world and became an ascetic. He practiced
austerities for eighty three days. on the eighty fourth day he obtained
omniscience. Lord Parshvanath preached his doctrines for seventy years. At
the age of one hundred he attained liberation on the summit of Mount
Sammeta (Parsnath Hills).
The four vows preached by Lord Parshvanath are: not to kill, not to
lie, not to steal, and not to own property. The vow of chastity was
without a doubt, implicitly included in the last vow, but in the two
hundred and fifty years that elapsed between the Nirvän of Parshvanath
and the preaching of Lord Mahavira, considering the situation of that time,
included the fifth vow of chastity explicitly to the existing four vows.
Thus, the number of vows preached by Lord Mahavir was five instead
of four. There were followers of Lord Parshvanath headed by Keshi Kumar at
the time Lord Mahavir. It is a historical fact that Kesi Kumar and Gandhar
Gautam, chief disciple of Lord Mahavir met and discussed the
differences. After satisfactory explanation by Gandhar Gautam, Keshi Kumar
and monks and nuns of Lord Parshvanath tradition accepted the leadership
of Lord Mahavira and they were reinitiated.
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