page_title: Bhadrabahu
section_title: Ascetic life & Explanation of Sixteen Dreams of Chandragupta
hierarchical_section_title: Bhadrabahu / Ascetic life & Explanation of Sixteen Dreams of Chandragupta
caption_attribution_description: English: Bhadrabahu Goopha on Chandragiri
context_page_description: Ācārya Bhadrabāhu was, according to the Digambara sect of Jainism, the last Shruta Kevalin in Jainism but Śvētāmbara, believes the last Shruta Kevalin was Acharya Sthulabhadra, but was forbade by Bhadrabahu from disclosing it. He was the last acharya of the undivided Jain sangha. He was the spiritual teacher of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of Maurya Empire.
  According to the Digambara sect of Jainism, there were five Shruta Kevalins in Jainism - Govarddhana Mahamuni, Vishnu, Nandimitra, Aparajita and Bhadrabahu.
context_section_description: On the night of full moon in the month of Kartik, Chandragupta Maurya (founder and ruler of Maurya Empire) saw sixteen dreams, which were then explained to him by Acharya Bhadrabahu.
  Bhadrabahu was in Nepal for a 12-year penitential vow when the Pataliputra conference took place in 300 BCE to put together the Jain canon anew. Bhadrabahu decided the famine would make it harder for monks to survive and migrated with a group of twelve thousand disciples to South India, bringing with him Chandragupta, turned Digambara monk.
  According to the inscriptions at Shravanabelgola, Bhadrabahu died after taking the vow of Sallekhana.
caption: Bhadrabahu Gupha on Chandragiri
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