Padmaprabha
Padmaprabha, also known as Padmaprabhu, was the sixth Jain Tirthankara of the present age (Avsarpini). According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha - a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma.
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6th Jain Tirthankara | |
Tirthankar Padmaprabha at Shri Laxmani Tirth, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh | |
| Other names | Padmaprabhu |
| Devanagari | पद्मप्रभ |
| Venerated in | Jainism |
| Predecessor | Sumatinatha |
| Successor | Suparshvanatha |
| Symbol | Lotus |
| Height | 250 bows (750 meters) |
| Age | 3,000,000 purva (211.68 Quintillion years) |
| Color | Red |
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In the Jain tradition, it is believed that Padmaprabha was born to King Shridhar and Queen Susimadevi in the Ikshvaku dynasty at Kausambi which is in today's Uttar Pradesh, India. Padmaprabha means ‘bright as a red lotus’ in Sanskrit. It is said in Śvetāmbara sources that his mother had a fancy for a couch of red lotuses – padma – while he was in her womb.
His birth date was the twelfth day of the Kartik krishna month of the Indian calendar. On the eleventh day of the dark half of the month of Margashirsh, Bhagwan Padmaprabha, along with other 308 saints was liberated and attained moksha on Sammet Shikhar (mountain).