a famous layman), now in the twelfth Devaloka, will become the twenty-second Tīrthaṅkara as Devajina.
The twenty-third is Amara, now in the ninth Graiveyaka, and will be called Anantavīrya.
The twenty-fourth and last of all the coming Tīrthaṅkara is Svayambuddha, now in the highest of all the Devaloka, who is to be incarnate as Bhadrajina.
The first of the new series of Tīrthaṅkara, Padmanābha, will much resemble Mahavira, and will accomplish as much as he did in spreading the faith. After him each succeeding Tīrthaṅkara will carry on the work, and the world will grow steadily happier, passing through every stage till the happiest of all is reached, when the decline of the wheel must once more begin that leads at last to the destruction of Jainism, and so on in endless succession.
