Jainism And The Temples Of Mount Abu And Ranakpur: Jainism And The Temples Of Mount Abu And Ranakpur (25)

Published: 14.03.2007
Updated: 29.11.2012

Subsequent cycles of birth are only as human being and god, since in the very next incarnation, as Prince Agnivega, he for the first time renounced the world and becomes an ascetic, i.e. he had already achieved a higher level of knowledge. This time too his brother, now reborn as a poisonous snake, killed him. Parsva rose to a higher sphere of divinity, whereas Kamatha fell into a lower one of hell.

Relief on the southern side of the temple showing Parshva with a hood formed of cobra head

In the third cycle of birth, Parsva in his human existence had already achieved the chakrarcivarti status; this implies that he had attained the status of a morally advanced conqueror of the world before renouncing the world. His brother killed him with an arrow and yet again, they exposed to celestial joys or hellish agony, respectively.

View of the western meghanada-mandapa from south
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Jainism And The Temples Of Mount Abu And Ranakpur

  • ISBN: 81-904045-1-2
  • Publisher: © Gyan Gaurav Publishers.
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  • Editor: Dilip Surana
  • Layout & Graphics: Antesh Choudhary
  • Text: © Lothar Clermont
  • Photos: © Thomas Dix
  • Printer: First Printed 1998
    Reprinted 2006 by Thomson Press, New Delhi
  • Volume: 96 pages
    Size: 242 x 312 mm
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