Mithila was under siege. The queen, carrying him, appeared on the city wall, and the besieging kings bowed and withdrew without a fight — from namana, to bow, comes the name Nami. A victory in which nobody fights is a very Jain way of showing a king's greatness.
Tirthankaras · Number 21/24
Naminatha
Named for a siege that ended with the enemy kings bowing — without a battle.
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tirthankaras/tk-21-naminatha.jpg · 1200×1600The story
Not the same NamiNaminatha is different from King Nami of the Uttaradhyayana Sutra (chapter 9), a pratyekabuddha who awakened alone. That Nami, ill with fever, hears the jangling bangles of his queens, has all but one removed from each arm, and in the silence understands that multiplicity is the source of noise. Indra comes disguised as a brahmin to argue him out of renouncing — one of the great dialogues of Indian literature, often wrongly attributed to the 21st Tirthankara.
