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<p><b>Rishabhanatha</b> (<a href="page.php?w=Devanagari">Devanagari</a>: ??????), also <b>Rishabhadeva</b> (Devanagari: ??????, ), <b>Rishabha</b> (Devanagari: ???, ) or <b>Ikshvaku</b> (Devanagari: ?????????, Iksvaku), is the first <i>[[tirthankara]]</i> (Supreme preacher) of <a href="page.php?w=Jainism">Jainism</a>. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain cosmology and called a "ford maker" because his teachings helped one cross the <a href="page.php?w=Samsara_%28Jainism%29">sea of interminable rebirths and deaths</a>.</p><p>
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