Successor Aranatha Moksha place Sammed Shikhar Dynasty/Clan Ikshvaku Complexion Golden Name Kunthunatha Kunthunatha | Father Surya (Sura) Predecessor Shantinatha Mother Sri devi | |
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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, 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.
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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 over 100,000 years he liberated his soul and attained Moksha on Mount Shikharji.