Sanat Kumara Chakravarti

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'''Sanatkumara Chakravarti''' is the 4th [[Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)#Jain tradition|Chakravarti]]{{clarify|reason=this term is unfamiliar to non-Jains and doesn't indicate whether the person is real, like a bishop in Christianity, or mythical, and the lead gives no indication whether he is contemporary or historic/mythical and from what period: please clarify.|date=September 2019}} of present [[Avasarpiṇī]] (present time cycle) of the [[Jain cosmology]].

'''Sanatkumara Chakravarti''' is a figure in [[Jainism|Jain]] universal history, described as the fourth [[Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)|Chakravartin]] of the present descending half-cycle of time, or ''[[avasarpiṇī]]''.{{cite book

|last=Kulkarni

|first=V. M.

|title=The Story of Rama in Jain Literature

|publisher=Saraswati Pustak Bhandar

|year=1990

|at=chapter 1, list of the twelve Cakravartins

}} He is also counted as one of the twenty-four Jain [[Kamadeva#In Jainism|Kamadevas]], a class of exceptionally beautiful men in Jain universal history.{{cite book

|title=Tiloyapaṇṇattī

|trans-title=Description of the Three Worlds

|language=Prakrit

|publisher=Jain Sanskriti Sanrakshak Sangh

|location=Solapur

|at=4.14–72

}}{{cite book

|last1=Jain

|first1=Sagarmal

|display-authors=etal

|title=Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies

|volume=1: Jaina Art and Architecture

|publisher=Parshwanath Vidyapith

|pages=340–341

}} In Jainism Kamadevas are praised mainly for extraordinary bodily beauty rather than for power over desire.

His parents were Asvasena, the king of [[Hastinapur]] and queen Sahadevi.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIvXAAAAMAAJ&q=Sanatkumara | title=Bhagwan Mahavir | publisher=University of Michigan | author=Swami Cauthamalajī | year=1942 | pages=88}} He took education in science and arts. Prince Mahendrasimha was his close friend, who also helped him get back to his kingdom after he was once lost. The legend notes that Sanatkumara was once riding a horse that was not trained well and lost his track and reached Manasa lake wherein he faced various troubles and fought and won battles. He married many women and eventually was made king of Vidyadharas. Mahendrasimha then found Sanatkumara and brought him back to Hastinapur. After his father Asvasena renounced his kingdom to become a monk, Sanatkumara took over and became Chakravartin.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzEzXDk0v6sC&q=Sanatkumara | title=Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers | author=Helmuth von Glasenapp | year=1999 | pages=306 | isbn=9788120813762}}

His parents were Asvasena, the king of [[Hastinapur]] and queen Sahadevi.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIvXAAAAMAAJ&q=Sanatkumara | title=Bhagwan Mahavir | publisher=University of Michigan | author=Swami Cauthamalajī | year=1942 | pages=88}} He took education in science and arts. Prince Mahendrasimha was his close friend, who also helped him get back to his kingdom after he was once lost. The legend notes that Sanatkumara was once riding a horse that was not trained well and lost his track and reached Manasa lake wherein he faced various troubles and fought and won battles. He married many women and eventually was made king of Vidyadharas. Mahendrasimha then found Sanatkumara and brought him back to Hastinapur. After his father Asvasena renounced his kingdom to become a monk, Sanatkumara took over and became Chakravartin.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzEzXDk0v6sC&q=Sanatkumara | title=Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers | author=Helmuth von Glasenapp | year=1999 | pages=306 | isbn=9788120813762}}