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great festivities followed. As the Lord of the Lords was proceeding, amid great rejoicing all around, for His wedding, He recollected, through clairvoyance, the unparalleled splendour of His previous incarnation as the Ahamindra. He realized that worldly pleasures are transitory in nature and fail to provide lasting happiness. More you get these, greater is the craving and consequent disquiet. He was immediately filled with a deep sense of renunciation and decided to tread the path that reaches the soul to its ultimate destination. He accepted the observance of great vows and austerities to be the Ruler of Self rather than of men.
After observing supreme vows and austerities for just six days, Lord Mallinātha attained the all-embracing knowledge, Omniscience (kevalajñāna).
Lord Mallinātha attained liberation (nirvāṇa) from Sammeda Śikhara on the fifth day of the dark half of the month of Phālguna - phālguna kršņa pañcami.
The Chief Apostle of Lord Mallinātha was Višākha Svāmī.
Lord Mallinātha lived for 55,000 years, out of which the kevalakāla was 54,900 years less six days, and the samyamakāla was 54,900 years.
O Lord Mallinātha, grant me the knowledge of the Self, the supreme light within that destroys the darkness of ignorance.
Lord Munisuvratanātha
The twentieth Tirthankara, Lord Munisuvratanātha, was born as 34 lakh plus 25,000 years passed after the birth of the nineteenth Tīrthankara, Lord Mallinātha. Descending from the Anata kalpa, Lord Munisuvratanātha was born in the town of Rājgriha, on the
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