PADMAPRABHA🔗

Padmaprabha, also known as Padmaprabhu, was the sixth Jain Tirthankara of the present Cosmic Cycle of Time (Avsarpini). According to Jain history, he became a Siddha - a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma (unfulfilled thoughts, words and actions and their consequences).

In the Jain tradition, Padmaprabha was born to King Shridhar and Queen Susimadevi in the Ikshvaku dynasty at Kausambi which is in today's Uttar Pradesh, Bharat. 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.

His birth date was the twelfth day of the Kartik krishna month of the Hindu calendar. On the eleventh day of the dark half of the month of Margashirsh, Bhagavan Padmaprabha, along with other 308 saints was liberated and attained moksha on Sammet Shikhar (mountain).