Kunthunatha

Kunthunatha
17th Jain Tirthankara, 6th Chakravartin, 12th Kamadeva
File:Worship of Kunthu.jpg Worship of Kunthu
Details
Predecessor	Shantinatha
Successor	Aranatha
Royalty
Dynasty/Clan	Ikshvaku
Family
Parents	Surya (Sura) (father) Sri devi (mother)
Kalyanaka / Important Events
Born	10194 years ago Hastinapura
Moksha place	Sammed Shikhar
Characteristics/Attributes
Complexion	Golden
Symbol	Goat
Height	35 bows (105 metres)
Age	95,000 years
Kevalakāla
Yaksha	Gandharva
Yakshini	Achyuta

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, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Kunthunatha was born to King Sura (Surya) and Queen Sridevi 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.

Life

Like all other Chakravartin, he also conquered all the lands and went to write his name on the foothills of mountains. Seeing the names of other Chakravartin already there, he saw his ambitions dwarfed. He then renounced his throne and became an ascetic for penance. At an age of 95,000 years he liberated his soul and attained Moksha on Mount Shikharji.

Famous Temple

• Prachin Bada Mandir, Hastinapur, Uttar Pradesh
• Kunthunath Temple at Jaisalmer Fort in Jaisalmer,Rajasthan

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  Prachin Bada Mandir,Hastinapur

• Kunthunath Temple, Madhuban.jpg

  Kunthunath Temple,Madhuban

See also

• God in Jainism
• Arihant (Jainism)
• Jainism and non-creationism