Part 7: Future Tīrthaṅkaras

Then the Blessed One related: “In Bharata there will be twenty-three other Arhats and eleven other Cakrins. The twentieth and twenty-second Jinas will belong to the Gotama-family; all the other attainers of nirvāṇa will spring from the Kaśyapa-family. Ajita, the son of Jitaśatru and Vijayā, in Ayodhyā, living for seventy-two lacs of pūrvas, gold-color, four hundred and fifty bows tall, will be an initiate for a lac of pūrvas less a pūrvāṅga. So there will be an interval of fifty lacs of crores of sāgaropamas between my nirvāṇa and that of Ajita. In Śrāvastī, Sambhava, the son of Jitāri and Senā, gold-color, living for sixty lacs of pūrvas, four hundred bows tall, will be in the vow for a lac of pūrvas less four pūrvāṅgas. The interval will be thirty lacs of crores of sāgaropamas. In the city Vinītā, Abhinandana, son of Saṃvara and Siddhārthā, living for fifty lacs of pūrvas, three hundred and fifty bows tall, gold-color, will be under vows a lac of pūrvas less eight pūrvāṅgas, and the interval will be ten lacs of crores of sāgaropamas.

In that city, Sumati, son of Megha and Maṅgalā, gold-color, living for forty lacs of pūrvas, three hundred bows tall, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less twelve pūrvāṅgas, and the interval will be nine lacs of crores of sāgaropamas. In Kauśāmbī, Padmaprabha, the son of Dhara and Susīmā, red color, living for thirty lacs of pūrvas, two hundred and fifty bows tall, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less sixteen pūrvāṅgas, and the interval will be ninety thousand crores of sāgaras. In Vārāṇasī, Supārśva, the son of Pratiṣṭha and Pṛthvī, gold-color, living for twenty lacs of pūrvas, two hundred bows tall, will be in the vow for a lac of pūrvas less twenty aṅgas, and the interval will be nine thousand crores of sāgaropamas. In Candrānana, Śaśiprabha (Candraprabha), the son of Mahāsena and Lakṣmaṇā, living for ten lacs of pūrvas, white, one hundred and fifty bows tail, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less twenty-four aṅgas, and the interval will be nine hundred crores of sāgaropamas.

In Kākandī, Suvidhi, son of Sugrīva and Rāmā, white, living for two lacs of pūrvas, one hundred bows tall, will be in the vow a lac of pūrvas less twenty-eight aṅgas, and the interval will be ninety crores of sāgaropamas. In Bhadrilapura, Śītala, son of Nandā and Dṛḍharatha, gold-color, living for a lac of pūrvas, ninety bows tall, will be in the vow twenty-five thousand pūrvas, and the interval will be nine crores of sāgaropamas. In Siṃhapurī, Śreyāṃsa, son of Viṣṇurāja and Viṣṇu, gold-color, eighty bows tall, his life measured by eighty-four lacs of years, will be in the vow twenty-one lacs of years, and the interval between Jinas will be one crore of sāgaras less one hundred sāgaras, sixty-six lacs and twenty-six thousand years. In Campāpurī, Vāsupūjya, son of Vasupūjya and Jayā, living for seventy-two lacs of years, seventy bows tall, red, will be in the vow fifty-four lacs of years, and the interval will be fifty-four sāgaropamas.

In Kāmpīlya, the Jina Vimala, son of Kṛtavarman and Śyāmā, living for sixty lacs of years, sixty bows tall, gold-color, will be in the vow fifteen lacs of years, and the interval between his mokṣa and Vāsupūjya’s will be thirty sāgaras. In Ayodhyā, Ananta, the son of Siṃhasena and Suyaśā, gold-color, living for thirty lacs of years, fifty bows tall, will have the vow for seven and a half lacs of years, and the interval between his and Vimala’s mokṣa will be nine sāgaras. In Ratnapura, Dharma, the son of Bhānu and Suvratā, gold-color, living for ten lacs of years, forty-five bows tall, will have two and a half lacs after initiation, and the interval between Ananta’s mokṣa and his will be four sāgaras. In Gajapura, Śānti, son of Viśvasena and Acirā, gold-color, living for a lac of years, forty bows tail, will be in the vow for twenty-five thousand years, and the interval will be three sāgaras less three-fourths of a palya.

In Gajapura, Kunthu, son of Śūra and Śrī, gold-color, living for ninety-five thousand years, with an interval of half a palya, thirty-five bows tall, will be in the vow twenty-three thousand, seven hundred and fifty years. Ara, gold-color, in Gajapura, son of Devī and Sudarśana, living for eighty-four thousand years, thirty bows tall, will have twenty-one thousand years in initiation, and the interval will be a fourth of a palya less a thousand crores of years. Mallinātha, in Mithilā, child of Kumbha and Prabhāvatī, twenty-five bows tall, with an interval of a thousand crores of years, blue, living for fifty-five thousand years, will be in the vow this same number less one hundred. The son of Padmā and Sumitra, Suvrata, in Rājagṛha, black, aged thirty thousand years, twenty bows tall, will have the vow for seven thousand five hundred years, and the interval between Jinas will be fifty-four lacs of years.

In Mithilā, Nami, the son of Vaprā and Vijaya, gold-color, with a life of ten thousand years, fifteen bows tall, will have the vow for two thousand five hundred years, and the interval between Muni’s and Nami’s mokṣa will be six lacs of years. Son of Śivā and Samudravijaya, in Śauryapura, dark blue, Nemi, ten bows tall, with a life of a thousand years, will be a wandering mendicant for seven hundred years, and the interval between the mokṣa of Nami and Nemi will be five lacs of years. Son of Vāmā and Aśvasena, Pārśva, in Vārāṇasī, dark blue, nine cubits tall, living for a hundred years, will be initiated for seventy years, and the interval will be eighty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty years. In Kuṇḍagrāma, Mahāvīra, son of Siddhārtha and Triśalā, gold-color, seven cubits tall, with a life of seventy-two years, will be initiated for forty-two years, and the interval between Pārśva and Vīra will be two hundred and fifty years.