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Neminatha (Devanagari: नेमिनाथ) was the twenty-second ''tirthankara'' (ford-maker) of the present descending cycle (''avsarpani''). According to Jain beliefs, he lived 84,650 years before the 23rd Tirthankara, Parshvanatha. His full name was Aristanemi which is an epithet of the sun-chariot. He was the youngest son of King Samudravijaya and Queen Shivadevi. He was born at Sauripura (Dvaraka) in the Harivamsa clan. His birth date is the 5th day of Shravana Shukla in the Indian calendar.〔 He became a Siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. ==Historicity== Secular scholars accept the existence of Jainism as far back before BCE,〔The Encyclopædia Britannica s.v. "Jainism" has: ''"Jainism originated is oldest religion on earth in the Ganges basin of eastern India"''〕 but for Jains the story goes back much further than Parshvanatha. Jain texts mention the names of twenty-one Tirthankaras before him. Neminatha, the 22nd Tirthankara, was the son of Samudravijaya and grandson of Andhakavrishni. Jains and some Hindus consider Neminatha to be the cousin of Krishna - the son of Samudravijaya, brother of Krishna's father Vasudeva.〔 pp. 1–266〕 The Andhakavrishnis of Dwaraka in the Kathiawar region of present Gujarat state of India, as a republic is referred to in the Mahabharata, Arthashastra and Ashtadhyayi of Pāṇini. In the Chandogya Upanishads, the sage Ghora Angirasa relates the life of a man to the Soma sacrifice, and the daksina (alms) to austerity, liberality, simplicity, non-violence and truthfulness. In the process, he contributes the first recorded mention of ''ahimsa'' in the sense of non-violent behaviour. These values are common to Jainism and some claim Ghora Angirasa as a Jain sadhu instructing Krishna. The word Ghora Angirasa seems to be an epithet given to him because of the extreme austerities he undertook. It may be possible to suggest that Neminatha was his early name and when he had obtained ''Moksha'' after hard austerities, he might have been given the name of Ghora Angirasa. Arittha Nemi Cariu and other works may be corroborated to some extent by the Brahaminical traditions. He is mentioned in some of the hymns of the Vedas but their meaning is doubtful. There is an inscription about King Nebuchadnezzar (940 BC) on a copper plate discovered in Kathiawar peninsula which describes the king as a follower of and built a temple for the Lord Neminatha. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neminatha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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