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The lives of the 24 Tirthankaras from the classical texts, with Shvetambara and Digambara tellings both shown and each life linked to its verified star.
The lives of the Tirthankaras are the heart of this site’s Claim Your Story mission: told from the classical texts (Hemachandra’s Trishashti-Shalaka-Purusha-Charitra, the Kalpasutra, the Adi Purana), with Shvetambara and Digambara tellings both honored, tradition and scholarship clearly labeled, and each life linked to its verified birth star.
The series begins where everything begins: with the first.
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Two children were born in Ayodhya on the same night, to two queens of the same court. One became the second Tirthankara. …
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Anantanatha is the fourth of the five Tirthankaras that tradition places at Ayodhya, and the one whose emblem the two …
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His emblem is not an animal but a diagram, and it is a diagram Jains draw in rice on a temple floor every day for …
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Chandraprabha is the Tirthankara you can name across a crowded temple hall without walking closer. Everything about him …
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He is the last of the twenty-four, the only one whose dates touch recorded history, and the one about whom the two sects …
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Nineteen Tirthankaras into the cycle, the Shvetambara canon does something it does nowhere else: it makes the …
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