Thursday, November 21, 2013

Timeline of 24 Jain Tirthankars

The  following table gives the time lapsed between the attainment of Nirwana(moksh) of 24 Jain Tirthankars. The unit of time used are Saagar, Palya and year. Both the units Saagar and Palya are exceptionally big units and consist of innumerable number of years. The details are given below:



Take 2000 kosh (kosh is the  unit of length approximately one mile) deep and 2000 kosh diameter ditch, and put the finest and smallest pieces of sheep hairs into the ditch.  Once the ditch is filled, every one hundred years, take one hair out.  The amount of time it takes to take out all the hairs is called a conventional palya (vyavahar palya).  Innumerable conventional palya is called uddhar palya.  Innumerable of this uddhar palya is called addhya palya.
 
1014 addhyapalya = one saagar.



s. no
Name of tirthankar
Age
Height
Time gap between the attainment of Nirwana (Moksh) of the tirthankar and the Moksh of his predessasor      
1
Lord Rishabha
(Adinath)
84 lakh purva
(great years)
500 dhanush
(poles)
No predessasor.
Attained Moksh 3 years, 8 months & 15 days prior to the end of 'third kaal' known as 'Sukhma Dukhma'.
2
Ajitnath
72 lakh Purva
450 dhanush
50 lakh crore saagar
3
Sambhavanath
60 lakh purva
400 dhanush
30 lakh crore saagar
4
Abhinandannath
50 lakh purva
350 dhanush
10 lakh crore saagar
5
Sumatinath
40 lakh purva
300 dhanush
9 lakh crore saagar
6
Padmaprabha
30 lakh purva
250 dhanush
90 thousand crore saagar
7
Suparshvanath
20 lakh purva
200 dhanush
9 thousand crore saagar
8
Chandraprabha
10 lakh purva
150 dhanush
900 crore saagar
9
Pushpadanta
2 lakh purva
100 dhanush
90 crore saagar
10
Sheetalnath
1 lakh purva
90 dhanush
9 crore saagar
11
Shreyansanath
84 lakh years
80 dhanush
1 crore saagar
12
Vasupujya
72 lakh years
70 dhanush
54 lakh saagar
13
Vimalnath
60 lakh years
60 dhanush
30 lakh saagar
14
Anantnath
30 lakh years
50 dhanush
9 lakh saagar
15
Dharmanath
10 lakh years
45 dhanush
4 lakh saagar
16
Shantinath
1 lakh years
40 dhanush
3 lakh saagar minus three fourths palya
17
Kunthunath
95,000 years
35 dhanush
Half a palya
18
Aranath
84,000 years
30 dhanush
One fourth palya minus 1000 crore years
19
Mallinath
55,000 years
25 dhanush
1000 crore years
20
Munisuvrata
30,000 years
20 dhanush
54 lakh years
21
Naminath
10,000 years
15 dhanush
6 lakh years
22
Neminath
1,000 years
10 dhanush
5 lakh years
23
Parsvanath
100 years
9 hands or
cubits
83750 years
24
Lord Mahavira
72 years
7 hands or
cubits
250 years.
Attained Nirwana 3 years, 8 months & 15 days prior to the end of 'Fourth Kaal' known as  'Dukhma Sukhma'.


Lord Mahavira attained Nirwana in 527 BC.

Note: Lord Krishna and Bagwhan Neminath were contemporary; that is, they were born in the same era. According to the above table, Neminath attained moksh 84000 years prior to Bagwhan Mahavira, therefore Lord Krishna was born about 86000 years ago.
Similarly, Lord Ram and Bagwhan Munisuvrata were contemporary. According to the above table, Munisuvrata attained moksh 11 lakh years prior to the moksh of Neminath. That means Lord Ram was born 11 lakh years before Lord Krishna was born.

1 comment:

  1. Looks like timeline of evolution from the time of first primates. Another great example showing the understanding of Indian sages about our past.

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