Nirayavali (निरयावली)
Ten royal sons of King Shrenika. One terrible battle. Ten descents into hell. The Nirayavali Sutra tells the stories of warriors who stood at the threshold of dharmic knowledge — some having heard Mahavira himself — and chose the battlefield anyway. The karma was precise, and it did not forget.
Teachings By
Lord Mahavira
Compiled By
Arya Sudharmashvami
#5 Chief Disciple of the Lord
Translated By
Dishant Shah
Chapters
10 — Varga 1
Kala Kumar
Son of Queen Kali and King Shrenika. Falls in the Rathamushala battle, slain by Chetaka's unerring arrow. Reborn in the fourth hell for ten ocean-measure lifetimes.
Sukala Kumar
Son of Queen Sukali. The same battlefield, the same arrow, the same karmic descent — showing that war's consequences are not accidents but outcomes written in the nature of action itself.
Mahakala Kumar
Son of Queen Mahakali. How the pull of royal duty and warrior's pride can overwhelm even those born near greatness — and what karma quietly accumulates in the gap.
Krishna Kumar
Son of Queen Krishnaa. The fourth warrior prince — born into a family that revered Mahavira, yet drawn by loyalty and lineage into the battle that sealed his fate.
Sukrishna Kumar
Son of Queen Sukrishna. Loyalty to king versus loyalty to dharma — and what happens when the warrior's code and the soul's code point in opposite directions.
Mahakrishna Kumar
Son of Queen Mahakrishna. Pride, royal blood, and the bitterness of a harvest that does not care how noble the planter believed himself to be.
Virakrishna Kumar
Son of Queen Virakrishna. The story of a warrior's courage turned inward — how the bravery admired on the battlefield becomes, in the Jain framework, exactly what binds.
Ramakrishna Kumar
Son of Queen Ramakrishna. How even proximity to the sacred — being raised in the household of a great king-devotee — does not automatically transmit its merit to those who choose violence.
Pitrisena Krishna Kumar
Son of Queen Pitrisena. The ninth warrior's descent — showing that the logic of karma is not cruel but simply accurate: it records what happened, and it ripens in proportion.
Mahasena Krishna Kumar
Son of Queen Mahasena. The final account — the tenth warrior, the tenth hell journey. Together the ten stories form a single, irrefutable teaching: the path of violence is the path away from liberation.