Kunthunātha

According to the sources compiled for this entry, Kunthunātha 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. He is enumerated in Jain lists as the seventeenth Tirthankara of the present half time cycle, Avasarpini, and is also listed as the sixth Chakravartin and the twelfth Kamadeva within those canonical enumerations.

The provided materials do not supply a textual physical description of Kunthunātha in narrative form. An extant artwork titled "The Tirthankara Kuntunatha, 1476" is recorded in image archives, indicating that visual representations of Kunthunātha exist in Jain iconographic practice, but the supplied excerpt gives only title and dimensions and no descriptive details of iconography.

Sources describe Kunthunātha in doctrinal terms: as a Tirthankara he functions as a saviour and supreme spiritual teacher of the dharma and, according to Jain belief recorded in the sources, he became a siddha — a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. The sources do not elaborate doctrinal mechanics (e.g., specific mention of kevalajnana) for Kunthunātha in the supplied material. He is also catalogued as a Chakravartin (ideal universal monarch) and Kamadeva in canonical lists, though the sources do not provide narrative descriptions of actions performed in those offices.