Kunthunatha
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.
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The idol of Tirthankara Kunthunatha at a Jinalaya in Raipur, Chattisgarh | |
Venerated in | Jainism |
Predecessor | Shantinatha |
Successor | Aranatha |
Symbol | Goat |
Height | 35 bows (105 metres) |
Age | over 95,000 years |
Color | Golden |
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