Padmaprabha
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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.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Jain
- Deity.deity_of
- 6th Jain Tirthankara
- Deity.image
- Tirthankara Padmaprabha.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Idol of Padmaprabha Bhagwan at Laxmani Tirth, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Deity.alt
- Image depicting Padmaprabha
- Deity.other_names
- Padmaprabhu
- Deity.Devanagari
- पद्मप्रभ
- Deity.venerated_in
- Jainism
- Deity.symbol
- Lotus
- Deity.color
- Red
- Deity.father
- Sridhara (Dharana)
- Deity.mother
- Susima
- Deity.height
- 250 bows (750 meters)
- Deity.age
- 3,000,000 purva (211.68 Quintillion years)
- Deity.predecessor
- Sumatinatha
- Deity.successor
- Suparshvanatha
- Deity.birth_place
- Kosambi
- Deity.moksha_place
- Sammed Shikhar
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Jain statues in Anwa, Rajasthan 20.jpg
- Height
- 750
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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.
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.