Lord Shreyanshnath:-
Bhagvan Shreyansnath dev was born in Sihanpur, on twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Phalgun . His father name was Vishnu raja and Mother name was Vishnu Devi . After long span of life time, he took diksha 13th day of the dark half of the month of Phalgun along with 1000 other men’s.
After 2 months of diksha and worldly life abandonment Lord Shreyansnath attained (kevalgyan) salvation on 15th day of the dark half of the month of Magh and constellation of Sharavan.
On the third day of the dark half of the month of Shravan, Bhagwan Shreyansnath, along with other 1000 saints was liberated and attained nirvana on Sammet Shikhar (mountain).
Bhagwan Shreyansnath lived for 84 lakh years purv of which he spent 21,000,00 years as an ascetics and 2months of Meditation and Spiritual Practices.
It is believed that Shreyansnath prabhu was 80 measure of bow(at that time unit of measurement was bow i.e. bow of bow & arrow) in height.
In his earlier incarnation, the being that was to become Bhagavan Shreyansnath purified his soul as king Nalingulm, and went to the Mahashakra dimension of gods. From there he descended and took birth as Shreyans Kumar, the son of king Vishnuraja and queen Vishnu Devi of Simhapur. Shreyans Kumar was born on the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Bhadrapad.
He had a normal princely life and ascended the throne when Vishnuraja retired. After a long reign Shreyans Kumar became a Shraman and within a short span of two months attained omniscience on the fifteenth day of the dark half of the month of Magh under a mango tree. He got Nirvana at Sammetshikhar on the third day of the dark half of the month of Shravan.
It was during his period that the being that was to be Bhagavan Mahavir reigned as the first Vasudev Triprishta. After the death of Triprishtha, his brother Baldev Achal became a disciple of Dharmghosh who was a follower of Shreyansnath. Achal got liberated in this birth.
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