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In the north easterly direction of our world, lies the world
of Mahavideh of Jambudwip. It is millions of miles away. There, are thirty-two divisions. The eighth division is called
Pushpakalavati. Its capital city is Pundarikgiri. I
was born before the reign of the following two of the twenty-four
tirthankars of the world: the seventeenth tithankara Shri Kunthunath
and the eighteenth tirthankara Shri Arahanath. My
father, Shri Shreyans was the king of Pundarikgiri. My mother’s
name was Satyaki.
At a supremely auspicious moment, Mother Satyaki gave
birth to a most handsome son, with unparallel beauty. The time
was midnight on Chaitra Vadi Tenth. His coat of arms, the symbol
of recognition of a tirthankara was an ox. At birth the child had
come with three types of knowledge: Matignan, shrutagnan and
avadhi gnan. His physical body now stands 1500 feet tall. Princess
Rukamani became the fortunate woman to marry the Lord. Lord
Simandhar took diksha, renunciation from worldly life, on the day
of Fagan Sudi Trij. This was the time when Lord Rama’s father
King Dasratha was the reigning king in his world. This also was
the time between the existence of the twentieth tirthankara
Munishivrat Swami and the twenty-first tirthankara, Shri Neminath.
At the moment of the diksha He attained the fourth gnan called
manahparyayagnan. After a thousand years as a sadhu (ascetic),
during which all his karmas, which had carried faults, exhausted,
the Lord became fully omniscient and attained Keval Gnan, full
enlightenment. This took place on Chaitra Sudi Tirteenth.
Thereafter, by mere darshan of the Lord, people attained the path
of liberation.
Surrendered at the feet of the Lord’s universal work of salvation are eighty-four ganadhars, one million fully enlightened
maharajas, one billion sadhus, one billion nuns, nine hundred billion
male and female married followers. Their protecting celestial deities
are Shri Chandrayan Yakshadev and Shri Panchanguli Yakshini
Devi.
The Lord Simandhar and nineteen other tirthankaras at
Mahavideh will attain final liberation after completing their life span
of eight million four hundred thousand years, on Shravan Sudi
Third. At that momentous time, the ninth tirthankara of the next
cycle of twenty-four tirthankars (chovisi), Shri Pedhaada Swami
would be walking on our earth and the eight tirthankara Shri
Udayaswami would have just attained nirvana.
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