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Bhagavân
Pushpadanta (श्रीपुष्पदन्त )
(9th
Tirthankara)
Name
..................Suvidhi Prabhu
Father's Name ................Sugriv Raja
Mother's Name ...............Rama Rani
Birth Place
................Kakandi
Birth Thithi .................margshish
ku.5
Diksha Thithi .................margshish ku.6
Kevalgyan Thithi ............kartik su. 3
Naksharta
.................Mul
Diksha Sathi ................1,000
Shadhak Jeevan ......... ..1,00,000 purva less 28 puvang
Age Lived
.............. ..2,00,000 purva
Lakshan Sign ............. ..Crocodile
Neervan Place ............. . Sammed Shekhar
Neervan Sathi ............. .. 1000
Neervan Thithi ............ ..bhadra su. 9
Colour
............ .. Shukla
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Lord Pushpadanta
the Ninth Tirthankar is also known by the name Suvidhinath. Pushpadanta became a siddha, a liberated soul that has destroyed all of its karma. Pushpadanta was born to
King Sugriva of Kakandi and Rama Devi in the Ikshvaku race. Pushpadanta`s birth
date was the fifth day of Margashirsha Krishna month.
During his earlier incarnation as emperor Mahapadma of Pushkalvati Vijay purified his soul to him extant of earning
Tirthankar- nam- and- gotra-karma.
Pushpadanta took birth in the Vijayant dimension of gods. From the Vijayant dimension he descended into the womb of queen Rama Devi, wife of king Sugriva of Kakandi town. When queen Rama was pregnant then she experienced an extraordinary capability to develop processes for doing even the most difficult of tasks. Everyone got overwhelmed at her skill. When the child, Pushpadanta was born the king Sugriva named him as Suvidhi. During the teething period of the child
the mother got a craving for playing with flowers. As such, he was also popularly known as Pushpadant or flower-tooth.
Pushpadant lead a normal princely life of luxury and pleasure but was always aloof. He became an ascetic at an early age and attained omniscience only after four months rigorous spiritual
practices. He got Nirvana at Sammed Sikharji on the ninth day of
the dark half of the month of Kartik.
The tradition of the four pronged religious ford started by Bhagavan Rishabhdev steadily became extinct after the Nirvana of Bhagavan Pushpadant. After his
Nirvana, first the ascetic organization disintegrated and a time came when there was no ascetic left. The religious discourses two were given by common citizens or
Shravaks.
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