Aranātha

In the Jain chronological scheme Aranātha appears as the eighteenth Tīrthaṅkara of the present half cycle (Avasarpini). The provided sources place his birth in the Ikshvaku royal line at Hastinapur to King Sudarshana and Queen Devi (Mitra), with a calendrical birth date recorded as the tenth day of the Migsar Krishna month. One source gives a traditional cosmological numeric date for his birth (around 16,585,000 BCE) as part of Jain temporal reckoning; this is presented in the sources as traditional chronology rather than modern historical dating.

The supplied Jain excerpts do not include sensory or iconographic description of Aranātha in life. Biographical markers in the sources record his royal parentage, birthplace (Hastinapur), and precise calendrical birth date but do not provide depictional features. A distinct fictional character named Aranatha (from unrelated Malazan fiction) is described elsewhere with long black hair, black skin, and silver eyes; that usage is separate and not part of the Jain tradition.

Within the Jain framework presented in the sources, Aranātha's capacities are primarily spiritual: he functions as a Tīrthaṅkara, a teacher who establishes or re‑establishes the dharma and provides the path across saṃsāra, and at the end of his life he becomes a siddha, described as a liberated soul that has destroyed all karmas. The provided materials do not enumerate specific miracles, rituals, or supernatural feats beyond these canonical roles; a biographical note in HereNow4U indicates he taught and gave instructions to subjects in a past‑life episode, consistent with the pedagogical role of Tīrthaṅkaras.