Shri Munisuvrat 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 Shravan Sud 11 his soul came into the womb of Queen Padmavati, wife of King Sumitra of Rajgruhi, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
The tradition says that while he was in the womb his mother kept her vows (vrat) as perfectly as a muni, so he was named Munisuvrat. His chinh is the tortoise.
He was born on Vaishakh Vad 8, 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 Fagan Sud 12 with a thousand kings.
He attained kevalgyan on Maha Vad 12; the devs built the samavasaran and the fourfold sangh was set up.
King Jitshatru of Bharuch was about to sacrifice his finest horse. Knowing that the horse had been his friend in a past life, the Prabhu walked through the night from Pratishthanpur to Bharuch and gave it his deshna in the samavasaran. The horse gained samyaktva, gave up its life peacefully and was born a dev. At that place the Ashvavbodh tirth was founded: the tirth of the awakening of the horse.
On Vaishakh Vad 9 Shri Munisuvrat Swami attained nirvan on Sammet Shikhar.
Shri Ram, Lakshman and Sita lived in the time of Munisuvrat Swami, and the Jain Ramayan, the Padma Charitra, belongs to his tirth.