invincible)[1] was the second tirthankara of the present age, avasarpini (half time cycle in Jain cosmology) according to Jainism.

[2] Ajitnatha was born in the town of Saketa to King Jitashatru and Queen Vijaya at Ayodhya (Vinita-Saketa)[3] in the Ikshvaku dynasty on magha-shukla-dashmi (the tenth day of the bright half of the month of Magha).

[1] According to Hemachandra, he was named Ajita because the king father was unable to defeat his mother in gambling until he was in her womb.

Uttarapurana, a Digambara text, explains that he was named Ajita because he could not be defeated by sins or all heretics.

[3] He attained kevala jnana under the saptaparna tree (Alstonia scholaris)[3] and Moksha on chaitra-shukla-panchmi (fifth day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra) from Shikharji.