Utsar-
piṇī.At last during Duṣama Duṣama, in some month of Śrāvana, and in the dark half of it, the era of Utsarpiṇī will begin, and the wheel of time start its upward revolution. It will rain for seven days seven different kinds of rain, and this will so nourish the ground that the seeds will grow. Duṣama will bring slight improvement.
In Duṣama Suṣama the first of the new twenty-four Tīrthaṅkara will come.
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Tīrthaṅ-
kara.The name of this first Tīrthaṅkara will be Padmanābha. In Mahāvīra's time this Padmanābha was a king in Magadha, and at present he is expiating his bad karma in the first hell. When in the upward revolution of the wheel Suṣama has been reached, the other twenty-three coming Tīrthaṅkara will be born.
Supārśva, the uncle of Mahāvīra, who at the present moment is in the second Devaloka, will be the second Tīrthaṅkara, and will be known as Suradeva.
The third will be Udāījī, who was the son of Kuṇika and so grandson of King Śreṇika; he is at present in the third Devaloka, but will be called the Tīrthaṅkara Supārśva.
The fourth, a certain Poṭila, now in the fourth Devaloka, will rule as Svayamprabhu.
Dṛiḍhaketu, the uncle of the husband of Mallinātha (the only woman Tīrthaṅkara), now in the second Devaloka, will be the fifth Tīrthaṅkara, Sarvānubhūti.
Kārttikaśeṭha, the father of the most famous of all Jaina laymen, Ānanda, who is at present in the first Devaloka, will be the sixth, Devaśruta.
Śaṅkhaśrāvaka, a man in the twelfth Devaloka, will be reborn as the seventh coming Tīrthaṅkara, Udayaprabhu.
The eighth will be Ānandaśrāvaka, now in the first Devaloka, who is to be called Peḍhāla.
Sunandāśrāvikā, in the first Devaloka, is to be reborn as the ninth Tīrthaṅkara, Poṭila.
A man called Śatakaśrāvaka, in the third hell, is to be re-incarnate as the tenth, Śatakīrti.
