The Kalyanaka Calendar: All 120 Sacred Days

Birth Chaitra Krishna 9 in the Digambara reckoning. Nirvana at Ashtapada; observed as Meru Trayodashi (Magha Krishna 14 in Digambara practice). Kevala nakshatra given as Abhijit in some readings.

"The planets being in exaltation" is stated at his birth. Nirvana at Sammeta with 1,000 ascetics.

All five kalyanakas in Mrigashirsha. Diksha on the full moon. Jyeshtha is the Digambara reading of his nakshatra.

First four kalyanakas in Abhijit; only the nirvana shifts.

Nirvana nakshatra given as Punarvasu in Johnson; several modern lists differ. Flagged for verification.

At his birth the text says the planets went to exaltation "by retrograde and accelerating motions" — the most technical astronomical statement in the corpus. Nirvana with 803 monks, not the usual 1,000. NOTE: the widely copied web tables duplicate Sumatinatha's kevala and moksha values into this row; the values here follow Hemachandra.

The paksha for the chyavana and kevala is genuinely not stated in the translation; we do not infer it. Only 500 munis at nirvana. Serpent-hood iconography traces to his mother's pregnancy dream.

The diksha nakshatra is written "Maitreya" in the text — Mitra being Anuradha's presiding deity.

All five in Mula. The texts record that the monastic congregation went extinct shortly after his nirvana — a dark age between Tirthankaras.

His diksha tithi is identical to his birth tithi in Hemachandra — verbatim, not a slip. The popular tables give the day after. Both readings are shown on our research page.

Kevala on the new moon (amavasya).

The great outlier: he never married and never reigned, and Hemachandra contrasts him with "others, from Ajita to Shreyamsa, who married and supported the earth". Retinue of 600 not 1,000; one-day fasts not two-day; diksha and kevala at Viharagriha; and his nirvana is at Champa, not Sammeta. His birth nakshatra is written "Varuna", which Johnson footnotes as Shatabhisha. Vishakha is the Digambara reading.

"The planets being in exaltation" is stated at his birth. Nirvana with 6,000 monks.

Diksha and kevala fall on the same date in the text. Nirvana with 7,000 monks.

Kevala on the full moon. Revati is the Digambara reading of his nakshatra.

His nirvana falls on the same tithi as his birth. "The planets being in exaltation" is stated at his birth.

"The planets being exalted" is stated at his birth. The text also says he wandered sixteen years before kevala, which does not reconcile with the stated dates — flagged honestly.

His nakshatra is named Paushna (a synonym for Revati) at the diksha and nirvana.

The only Tirthankara to attain omniscience on the very day of renunciation. In the Shvetambara tradition Mallinatha is a woman; the Digambara tradition holds all 24 were male. The Kalpasutra gives her no kalyanaka data at all.

Conception on the full moon.

His birth nakshatra is given periphrastically as "the constellation which has a horse for a divinity".

All five in Chitra (named Tvashtra in the text). Kevala on the new moon at Girnar; nirvana at Girnar with 536 sadhus. Krishna was his first cousin.

All five in Vishakha (named Radha in the text). The Kalpasutra gives the diksha as Paush Krishna 11 rather than 13. Kevala came 84 days after diksha. Nirvana at Sammeta, aged 100.

The embryo transfer (Ashvina Krishna 13) is counted as a sixth event, also in Uttara Phalguni. The Kalpasutra gives the birth as Chaitra Krishna 14; Hemachandra gives Chaitra Shukla 13, which matches the universally observed Mahavir Jayanti. His nirvana on Kartika amavasya in Svati is Diwali, and the start of the Vira Nirvana Samvat era.