Shri Sumatinath: life and stories
Following the Shwetambar tradition, chiefly Acharya Shri Hemchandracharya's Trishashti Shalaka Purush Charitra. Kalyanak tithis are in Gujarati months.
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The tradition tells that in a former life he was King Purushsinh in Mahavideh. He took diksha, and through the aradhana of the twenty sthanak bound the Tirthankar naam karma; he was then born as a dev in an anuttar viman.
On Shravan Sud 2 his soul came into the womb of Queen Mangala, wife of King Megh of Ayodhya, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
While the Prabhu was in the womb, two women came to King Megh's court, each claiming the same young son, and with him the family's wealth. No one could tell the true mother. Queen Mangala said: let the boy stay with neither of them until he is grown; then he will choose, and the wealth will be his. One woman agreed at once; the other burst into tears, begging only that her child be near her. The queen knew the true mother by her love and gave her the child.
Such wisdom came to the queen because of the Prabhu in her womb, so the child was named Sumati, "of good understanding". His chinh is the krauncha bird.
He was born on Vaishakh Sud 8, and the Indras celebrated the janmabhishek on Meru. He ruled Ayodhya with the same wisdom his name promised.
After a year of varshidaan he took diksha on Vaishakh Sud 9, the day after his birth tithi, with a thousand kings. He attained kevalgyan on Chaitra Sud 11, and the fourfold sangh was set up.
On Chaitra Sud 9 Sumatinath Bhagwan attained nirvan on Sammet Shikhar with a thousand munis.