Shri Amar Muni
ANANTNATH BHAGAVAN -
Queen Suyasha Devi, wife of king Simhasen of Ayodhya,
gave birth to an illustrious son on the thirteenth day of the dark half of
the month of Vaishakh. During her pregnancy the queen dreamt of a very
long strand of beads whose ends were not visible. The power and the glory
of the king also increased manifold during this period. Accordingly the
new born was named Anant (endless) Kumar.
After leading a normal life, first as a price and then
as the king he became an ascetic along with one thousand other persons. He
became an omniscient on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month
of Vaishakh under an Ashok tree. In his first discourse he elaborated the
subject of the fundamentals-matter and life. He had fifty chief disciples
including the senior most named Yash. Purushottam Vasudev and Suprabh
Baldev reigned during his period of influence.
Bhagavan Anantnath got Nirvana at Sammetshikhar on the
fifth day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra.