Nemi Nath
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As depicted in Jain texts, Neminath was a Yaduvanshi, the same as was Lord Krishna and the two were each other's kinsmen. He is the twenty second of the Jain Tirthankars.
Neminath was highly emotional and compassionate. When at his bride's house, he noticed a large number of cattle, thirsty, hungry and uncared for, retained inside a fold. They were all moaning miserably. Neminath asked the reason for retaining them. When he learnt that they were the part of dowry to be given to him, it deeply and painfully struck his mind. He realised that this life sustained and prospered by exploiting and causing misery to others. He instantly renounced the world and entered the severest of austerities.
