Bhaktamara Stotra illustration: A 'Tirthankara' is a shelter from ocean of rebirths

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It starts with the word "Bhaktamar", hence its name:

भक्तामर-प्रणत-मौलिमणि-प्रभाणा-मुद्योतकं दलित-पाप-तमोवितानम्
सम्यक् प्रणम्य जिन पादयुगं युगादावालंबनं भवजले पततां जनानाम् || १||

यः संस्तुतः सकल-वांग्मय- तत्व-बोधाद्-उद्भूत- बुद्धिपटुभिः सुरलोकनाथैः
स्तोत्रैर्जगत्त्रितय चित्त-हरैरुदरैःस्तोष्ये किलाहमपि तं प्रथमं जिनेन्द्रम्||२||

As the second verse states, it is in the praise of the first Tirthankara, Lord Rishabha. In Jainism, a Tirthankara (Fordmaker) is a human who achieved enlightenment, became a Jiva, and whose religious teachings have formed the canon of Jainism; although not Gods, statues of Tirthankaras are found in temples. ... Lord Rishabha or Rishabanath who was the first Tirthankar of Jainism. ...

Legends associate Manatunga with Raja Bhoja. However Manatunga lived a few centuries before Raja Bhoja of Dhara. He is identified as Kshapanaka, one of the Navaratnas in the court of legendary Vikramaditya by some scholars. Bhoja from a mural in the Parliament of India building Bhoj was a great philosopher king and polymath of medieval India. ... Bhoja from a mural in the Parliament of India building Bhoj was a great philosopher king and polymath of medieval India. ... In Hinduism, Dharā Support is one of the Vasus, gods of the physical cosmos. ... The term Navaratnas is used generally for denoting the group of nine extraordinary people in Akbars darbar. Navaratnas or Nine Gems (nine (nav), jewels (ratnas)) was also the collective title of the nine most valuable members in the court of Emperor Vikramaditya. ... The period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India. ...

There are many legends associated by the Bhaktamar stotra.

Art

"Sadhak Shivaanand Saraswati" (Udayraj Gadnis)has painted a number of yantras asociated with Bhaktamar stotra. In 2002 at an exhibition at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai, Chelsea Clinton visited the gallery and discussed spiritualism with the painter ^[1].

External Links

• Bhaktamar Stotra of Acharya Manatunga
• Stotra in Audio
• Stotra in calligraphy

References

• Bhaktamara-stotra of Manatunga, Ed. HR Kapadia. Bombay, 1932; Ed. and trans. H. Jacobi.
• Manatungacharya aur unake stotra, Dhaky and Shah, 1997.

1. ^ The Week, 20 April 2000