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Bhagavân
Ajitnath (श्रीअजितनाथ )
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अर्हन्तमजितं
विश्व कमलाकर भास्करम्।
अम्लान केवलादर्श
सक्रान्त जगतं स्तुवे।।
जिस तरह
सूर्य से कमल-वन आनन्दित
होता है, उसी तरह जिस से यह
सारा जगत् आनन्दित है,
जिसके केवल क्षान रूपी
निर्मल दर्पण में सारे
लोकों का प्रतिबिम्ब पङता
है, उस अजितनाथ प्रभु की
स्तुति करते है। -श्री
हेमचन्द्रचार्य
Name
........... .... Ajit nath
Father's Name ..................Jitshatru
Mother's Name ................Vijaya
Birth Place
..................Ayodhya
Birth Thithi
............... ..Magh Shukla. 10
Diksha Thithi .............. ..Magh ku. 9
Kevalgyan Thithi ............ .Paush su. 11
Naksharta
.............. .Rohini
Diksha Sathi ......... ...
..1000
Shadhak Jeevan ............ .1,00,000 purva less 1 puvang
Age Lived
.. ............ . 72,00,000 purva
Lakshan Sign ..............
Elephant
Neervan Place ............. .Sammed Sheekhar
Neervan Sathi ............. .1,000
Neervan Thithi .............. Chaitra Sukla.
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Ajitnatha was born
at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku clan. His father was King Jitashatru Raja and
mother was Queen Vijaya. Before his birth Queen Vijaya Devi saw fourteen auspicious dreams.
The augers were consulted and they informed that
Vijaya Devi will give birth to a Tirthankar. The queen gave birth to a son on the eighth day of the bright half of the month
of Magh and the king named the new born as the Ajit.
When king Jitshatru became old he called Ajit and asked him to take over the
throne, but Ajit was a naturally detached person since childhood, so he
politely declined the throne offered by the king. Ajit became an ascetic in his youth and went into remote and dense forests
for his meditation and penance. His personality and the intensity of his lofty
practices cast a pacifying influence all around. Natural enemies in the animal
kingdom, like lion and cow, wolf and deer, snake and mongoose used to come and
sit around him peacefully.
After a twelve year period of deep meditation and other spiritual practices
attained omniscience on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of
Paush. When his last moments were approaching, Bhagavan Ajitnath went
Sammedshikhar. With one thousand other ascetics, he commenced his final meditation. He attained
Nirvana on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra
(Chaitra Sukla 5). The gods created the divine pavilion and Bhagawan Ajitnath gave his
eloquent and magnetic discourses. Thousands of people accepted the path of
renunciation.
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