Shri Vasupujya 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 Jeth Sud 9 his soul came into the womb of Queen Jaya, wife of King Vasupujya of Champapuri, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
He was named after his father, King Vasupujya; the tradition adds that Indra honoured the family with showers of wealth (vasu). His chinh is the buffalo.
He was born on Maha Vad 14, and the Indras celebrated the janmabhishek on Meru.
Vasupujya Swami took diksha without ruling a kingdom; he is the first of the five Tirthankars who renounced as princes (kumar), with Mallinath, Neminath, Parshvanath and Mahavir Swami.
After the Lokantik devs came to request him and a year of varshidaan, he took diksha on Maha Vad Amas with six hundred men.
He attained kevalgyan on Maha Sud 2; the devs built the samavasaran and the fourfold sangh was set up.
On Ashadh Sud 14 Shri Vasupujya Swami attained nirvan at Champapuri.
All five of his kalyanaks took place at Champapuri, and he is the only Tirthankar of this age to attain nirvan there.