Suparshvanatha | |
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7th Jain Tirthankara | |
Venerated in | Jainism |
Predecessor | Padmaprabha |
Successor | Chandraprabha |
Symbol | Swastika |
Height | 200 bows (600 meters) |
Age | 2,000,000 purva (141.12 Quintillion years) |
Color | Golden |
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Suparshvanatha (Sanskrit: सुपार्श्वनाथ Supārśvanātha), also known as Suparśva, was the seventh Jain Tīrthankara of the present age (avasarpini). He was born to King Pratistha and Queen Prithvi at Varanasi on 12 Jestha Shukla in the Ikshvaku clan. He is said to have attained moksha at Shikharji on the sixth day of the dark half of the month of Phālguna.