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navapada

Jainism

Also known as: saint-wheel

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use by Digambara sect

In siddha
… sect the saint-wheel is called navapada (“nine dignities,” or “nine virtues”) and consists of the pañca-parameṣṭhin plus the Jina (saviour) image, temple, scriptures, and dharma-cakra (sacred wheel of the law).
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