Rishabhanatha
Rishabhanatha, also Rishabhadeva, Rishabha or Ikshvaku, is the first tirthankara of Jainism. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain cosmology, and... Wikipedia
- Other names: Ādinātha and Ādeśvara (the first conqueror) • Ādarśa Puruṣa (perfect man) • Ikśvaku
- Symbol: Bull
- Height: 500 bows
- Age: 8.4 million purvas (592.704 x 10 18 years)
- Tree: Banyan
- Color: Golden
- Spouse: Sumangalā, Sunandā
- Parents: Kulakara Nabhi (father), Marudevi (mother)
- Children: 100 sons (including: Chakravarti Bharata, Prince Nami, and Kamadeva Bahubali) • 2 daughters: Mahasati Brāhmī and Mahasati Sundarī Reference
- Preceded by: Sampratti (last Tirthankara of the previous time-cycle)
- Succeeded by: Ajitanatha
- Texts: Ādi purāṇa, Mahāpurāṇa, Bhaktamara Stotra
- Festivals: Akshaya Tritiya
- Born: Ayodhya
- Moksha: Asthapada
- Data source: DuckDuckGo