Vasupujya
Sign in to saveVasupujya is the twelfth tirthankara in Jainism of the avasarpini (present age). According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Vasupujya was born to King Vasupujya and Queen Jaya Devi at Champapuri in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His birth date was the fourteenth day of the Falgun Krishna month of the Indian calendar. He never married and remained a celibate. He attained Kevala Jnana within one month of Tapsya and Moksha at Champapuri, of Bihar in India on the fourteenth day of the bright half of the month of Ashadh.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Jain
- Deity.deity_of
- 12th Tirthankara
- Deity.image
- Vataman - Vasupujya Swami.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Vasupujya Swami at Vataman
- Deity.alt
- Vasupujya
- Deity.other_names
- Shri Vasupujya Swami Bhagwan
- Deity.venerated_in
- Jainism
- Deity.symbol
- Buffalo
- Deity.color
- Red
- Deity.father
- Vasupujya
- Deity.mother
- Jaya (Vijaya)
- Deity.height
- 70 bows (210 metres)
- Deity.age
- 7,200,000 years
- Deity.predecessor
- Shreyansanatha
- Deity.successor
- Vimalanatha
- Deity.birth_place
- Champapur
- Deity.moksha_place
- Champapur
- Deity.dynasty
- Ikṣvākuvaṁśa
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- Bhagwan Vasupujya.JPG
- Height
- 210
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Vasupujya is the twelfth tirthankara in Jainism of the avasarpini (present age). According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Vasupujya was born to King Vasupujya and Queen Jaya Devi at Champapuri in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His birth date was the fourteenth day of the Falgun Krishna month of the Indian calendar. He never married and remained a celibate. He attained Kevala Jnana within one month of Tapsya and Moksha at Champapuri, of Bihar in India on the fourteenth day of the bright half of the month of Ashadh.
==Biography== Vasupujya was the 12th tirthankara in Jainism of the Avasarpini (present age). According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Vasupujya was born to King Vasupujya and Queen Jaya Devi at Champapuri in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His birth date was the fourteenth day of the Falgun Krishna month of the Indian calendar. He attained Kevala Jnana within one month of Tapsya and Moksha at Champapuri, Bhagalpur in India on the fourteenth day of the bright half of the month of Ashadh. His height is mentioned as 70 dhanusha. He is said to have lived for 7,200,000 years.