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The word Tirthankara has been derived from the Prakrit word Tirtha. The word Tirtha means a passage, path, crossing or ford that helps one to cross the sea of endless cycle of births and deaths, called Samsara.
The word Tirthankara, therefore, refers to the person who establishes such a Tirtha or makes such a Tirtha known to the people. He is a ford maker.
In Jainism, Tirthankara refers to an enlightened person who, having himself ended the cycle of births and death, shows the path to others. In other words, Tirthankara is a person who (re)establishes a Tirtha and inspires people to cross the worldly ocean and attain salvation. Tirtha, refers to the four-fold order/ community of monks and lay followers (known as sadhu, sadhvi, shravak, shravika).
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Tirthankar
A Tirthankar is not an incarnation of the God. He is an ordinary soul that is born as a human and attains the states of a Tirthankar as a result of intense practices of penance, equanimity and meditation. As such, the Tirthankar is not defined as an Avatar (god-incarnate) but is the ultimate pure developed state of the soul.