Shri Anantnath: life and stories
Following the Shwetambar tradition, chiefly Acharya Shri Hemchandracharya's Trishashti Shalaka Purush Charitra and the Kalpasutra. Kalyanak tithis are in Gujarati months.
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In a former life he was a king in Mahavideh who took diksha and, through the aradhana of the twenty sthanak, bound the Tirthankar naam karma; he was then born as a dev in the higher devlok.
On Ashadh Vad 7 his soul came into the womb of Queen Suyasha, wife of King Sinhasen of Ayodhya, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
The tradition says that his mother dreamt of an endless (anant) string of jewels, so he was named Anant. His chinh is the hawk.
He was born on Chaitra Vad 13, and the Indras celebrated the janmabhishek on Meru.
After the Lokantik devs came to request him and a year of varshidaan, he took diksha on Chaitra Vad 14 with a thousand kings.
He attained kevalgyan on Chaitra Vad 14; the devs built the samavasaran and the fourfold sangh was set up.
On Chaitra Sud 5 Shri Anantnath attained nirvan on Sammet Shikhar.