Sudharmaswami

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Template otherTemplate:Wikidata imageTemplate:Compare image with Wikidata Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Sudharmaswami (Template:Langx or Sudharman; 607 BC – 507 BC) was the fifth ganadhara of Mahavira. All the current Jain acharyas and monks follow his rule.

Life

Sudharmaswami was the spiritual successor of Indrabhuti Gautama in religious order reorganised by Mahavira.Template:Sfn He is traditionally dated from 607 to 507 BC.Template:Sfn In the Jain tradition he is believed to have obtained omniscience after 12 years in 515 BC.Template:Sfn He is believed to have attained nirvana in 507 BC at the age of 100.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The leadership of religious order was then transferred to Jambuswami who served for 44 years and was the last Ganadhara who survived after the death of Mahavira.Template:Sfn

For Jains, their scriptures represent the literal words of Mahavira and the other tirthankaras only to the extent that the agama texts are a series of fixed truths without a beginning or an end, and a tradition without any origin, human or divine, which in this world age has been channelled through Sudharmasvāmī.Template:Sfn

See also

• Devardhigani Kshamashraman
• Hemachandra
• Hiravijaya