Bharat Devotion

Kalyanak / Kalyanaka

शाब्दिक अर्थ (Shabdartha)

Auspicious event

व्युत्पत्ति एवं धातु मूल (Vyutpatti)

Sanskrit 'kalyana' (auspicious, beneficial): one of the five pivotal life-events Jain tradition marks for every Tirthankara.

आध्यात्मिक भावार्थ व संदर्भ

The five Kalyanakas, conception, birth, renunciation, omniscience, and final liberation (Moksha Kalyanak), are each celebrated at the place where they occurred and remembered in the annual festival calendar.