Kunthunātha
Sign in to saveKunthunath was the seventeenth Tirthankara, sixth Chakravartin and twelfth Kamadeva of the present half time cycle, Avasarpini. According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Kunthunatha was born to King Surya (Sura) and Queen Shridevi at Hastinapur in the Ikshvaku dynasty on the fourteenth day of the Vaishakh Krishna month of the Indian calendar.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Jain
- Deity.deity_of
- 17th Tirthankara, 6th Chakravarti, and 12th Kamadeva
- Deity.image
- Tirthankar Kunthunatha.jpg
- Deity.caption
- The idol of Kunthunatha Bhagwan at a Jinalaya in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
- Deity.alt
- Kunthunatha
- Deity.venerated_in
- Jainism
- Deity.symbol
- Goat
- Deity.color
- Golden
- Deity.birth_place
- Hastinapur
- Deity.father
- Śurya
- Deity.mother
- Śrīdevī
- Deity.height
- 35 bows (105 metres)
- Deity.age
- over 95,000 years
- Deity.predecessor
- Shantinatha
- Deity.successor
- Aranatha
- Deity.moksha_place
- Sammed Shikhar
- Deity.dynasty
- Kuruvaṁśa—Ikṣvākuvaṁśa
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Kunthunath was the seventeenth Tirthankara, sixth Chakravartin and twelfth Kamadeva of the present half time cycle, Avasarpini. According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Kunthunatha was born to King Surya (Sura) and Queen Shridevi at Hastinapur in the Ikshvaku dynasty on the fourteenth day of the Vaishakh Krishna month of the Indian calendar.
==Etymology== Kunthu means heap of Jewels.
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