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Sumatinatha
5th Jain Tirthankara
Sumatinatha
Sumatinath at Sumati Dham Jain Digambar Temple
Venerated inJainism
PredecessorAbhinandananatha
SuccessorPadmaprabha
SymbolGoose
Height300 bows (900 meters)
Age4,000,000 purva (282.24 Quintillion Years Old)
TreePriyangu
ColorGolden
Genealogy
Born
Died
Parents
  • Megharatha (father)
  • Mangalāvatī (mother)

Sumatinatha was the fifth Jain Tirthankara of the present age (Avasarpini). Sumatinatha was born to a Kshatriya King Megha (Megharatha) and Queen Mangalavati (Sumangalavati) at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His Janma Kalyanak (birthday) was the eighth day of the Vaisakha Sudi month of the Jain calendar.

Tradition

Sumatinatha was the fifth Jain Tirthankara of the present age (Avasarpini).[1] Sumatinatha was born to Kshatriya King Megha (Meghaprabha) and Queen Mangala (Sumangala) at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His birth date was the eighth day of the Vaisakha Sudi month of the Jain calendar.[1]

He attained Kevala Jnana under sala or priyangu tree.[2] He became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Sumithanatha is associated with Heron (Krauncha) emblem, Priyangu tree, Tumburu (Purushadatta) Yaksha and Mahakala Yakshi.[3]

In his previous incarnation, Sumatinatha was an Indra in the Jayanta Vimana.[4]

Adoration

Svayambhustotra by Acharya Samantabhadra is the adoration of twenty-four tirthankaras. Its five slokas (aphorisms) are dedicated to Sumatinātha.[5] Last of which is:

The attributes of existence and non-existence in an object are valid from particular standpoints; the validity of the statement is contingent on the speaker's choice, at that particular moment, of the attribute that he wishes to bring to the fore as the other attribute is relegated to the background. O Lord Sumatinātha, you had thus explained the reality of substances; may your adoration augment my intellect![6]

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