 Jain texts like "padmapurana" place him as a contemporary of Rama.According to Jain texts, "Munisuvrata" was born as 54 lakh years passed after the birth of the nineteenth "tirthankara", "Mallinātha".According to Jain beliefs, "Munisuvrata" descended from the heaven called "Ānata kalpa" on the twelfth day of the bright half of the month of "Āśvina – āśvina śukla dvādaśi"– to queen "Padmā" and king "Sumitra".