Shri Chandraprabh Swami: 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 Fagan Vad 5 his soul came into the womb of Queen Lakshmana, wife of King Mahasen of Chandrapuri, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
The tradition says that his mother longed to drink the light of the moon, and the child shone white and calm like the moon (chandra), so he was named Chandraprabh. His chinh is the moon.
He was born on Magshar Vad 12, 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 Magshar Vad 13 with a thousand kings.
He attained kevalgyan on Maha Vad 7; the devs built the samavasaran and the fourfold sangh was set up.
On Shravan Vad 7 Shri Chandraprabh Swami attained nirvan on Sammet Shikhar.