Match List-I(Tirthankara) with List-II (Respective Cognisance [Lanchchhana])

List I	List II
(a) Adinatha	(i) Bull
(b) Mallinatha	(ii) Pitcher
(c) Mahavira	(iii) Lion
(d) Parsvanatha	(iv) Serpent

Select correct option:

• Jainism doesn't have a single founder. The truth has been revealed at different times by a Tirthankara, which means a teacher who 'makes a ford' i.e. shows the way.
• As great omniscient teachers, Tirthankaras accomplished the highest spiritual goal of existence and then teach others how to achieve it.
• In what Jains call the 'present age' there have been 24 Tirthankaras - although there is little evidence for the existence of most of these.

 Key PointsThe 24 Tirthankaras during this present age are:

Adinatha, Ajita, Sambhava, Abhinandana, Sumati, Padmaprabha, Suparshva, Chandraprabha, Suvidhi, Shital, Shreyansa, Vasupujya, Vimala, Ananta, Dharma, Shanti, Kunthu, Ara, Malli, Muni Suvrata, Nami, Nemi, Parshva and Mahavira.

Important PointsThe Tirthankaras are known by their names and symbols such as-

Additional Information

• A Tirthankara appears in the world to teach the way to moksha, or liberation.
• A Tirthankar is not an incarnation of God.
• He is an ordinary soul that is born as a human and attains the states of a Tirthankar as a result of intense practices of penance, equanimity and meditation.
• Tirthankar is not defined as an Avatar (god-incarnate) but is the ultimate pure developed state of the soul.