Chandraprabha

Candraprabha
8th Jain Tirthankara
Idol of a Tirthankara
Details
Alternate name:	Chandraprabhu
Historical date:	10^129 Years Ago
Family
Father:	Mahasena
Mother:	Lakshmana
Dynasty:	Ikshvaku
Places
Birth:	Chandrapuri
Nirvana:	Shikharji
Attributes
Colour:	White
Symbol:	Crescent Moon
Height:	150 dhanusha (450 meters)
Age At Death:	1,000,000 purva (70.56 Quintillion Years Old)
Attendant Gods
Yaksha:	Vijaya
Yaksini:	Jvala

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In Jainism, Chandraprabha was the eighth Tirthankara of the present age or Avasarpini.^[1] According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Chandraprabha was born to King Mahasena and Queen Lakshmana Devi at Chandrapuri to the Ikshvaku dynasty.^[1] His birth-date was the twelfth day of the Posh Krishna month of the Indian calendar.

Previous births

In his birth as king Padma of Mangalavati town of Dhatkikhand, the being that was to become Bhagavan Chandraprabh earned Tirthankar-nam-and-gotra-karma. Spending a lifetime as a god in Anuttar Vijay dimension he descended into the womb of queen Lakshmana, wife of king Mahasen of Chandranana town.^[2]

Life as Tirthankara

During her pregnancy, one day the queen was looking at the splendors and glowing full-moon. All of a sudden she had a strange desire to drink the glowing streak of moon light. The king cleverly managed to satisfy this strange desire of a pregnant mother. On the thirteenth day of the dark half of the month of Paush the queen gave birth to a healthy son who was fair and glowing like the moon. He was named Chandraprabh (glow of the moon). Chandraprabh was apathetic towards the mundane pleasures and princely grandeur. After he ascended the throne his reign was short lived. He became an ascetic in the prime of his youth and just after three months of acute spiritual practices he became an omniscient. For a considerably long period he continued to enlighten the people and propagate the true religion. When his end approached he went to Sammetshikhar and after a month of long fast and meditation attained Nirvana.^[3]

See also

• Arhat
• God in Jainism
• Jainism and non-creationism
• Tijara Jain Temple

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Tukol, T. K. (1980). Compendium of Jainism. Dharwad: University of Karnataka.  p.31
2. ^ Helen, Johnson (2009) [1931]. Muni Samvegayashvijay Maharaj. ed (in English. Trans. From Prakrit). Trisastiśalākāpurusacaritra of Hemacandra: The Jain Saga. Part 1. Baroda: Oriental Institute. ISBN 978-81-908157-0-3.  p.461
3. ^ Helen, Johnson (2009) pp.462-67

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