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.
Abhinandananātha
Abhinandananātha is the fourth Tīrthaṅkara (ford-maker) of the current Jain cosmic age (avasarpini). Traditional accounts place his birth in Ayodhyā to the Ikshvāku (Solar) dynasty, describe his renunciation and attainment of omniscience beneath a priyangu tree, and record his liberation on Mount Śikharjī.
Ajitanātha
Ajitanātha is the second tirthankara of the current cosmic age in Jainism: an enlightened spiritual teacher who renounced worldly life, attained omniscience (kevalajñāna), and achieved liberation (moksha), and who is credited with establishing a large four-part monastic order in the tradition's hagiography.
Akshayavata
In Hindu mythology, Akshayavata is a sacred banyan tree and/or lake that symbolizes eternal life. It is mentioned in both Hindu and Jain traditions and associated with the Puranas. (Note: - The power tier should be "Greater" or at least "Ancient", as it is associated with the Puranas, which are considered ancient texts. - No specific physical description is provided, but that doesn't m)
Ambika (Jainism)
Ambika is the yakṣiṇī (Śāsana Devī, protector-goddess) and tutelary attendant of the 22nd Tīrthaṅkara Neminatha in Jain tradition. Venerated both as an attendant spirit and an independent goddess (kuladevi) she features in devotional, temple and tantric ritual contexts, and is associated with fertility, prosperity and protection.
Anantanātha
Anantanātha is the fourteenth Tīrthaṅkara of the present age (Avasarpini) in Jain tradition, a perfected spiritual teacher who became a siddha (liberated soul) after destroying all karma and whose role is to reveal the dharma and provide a ford (tīrtha) across saṃsāra.
Aranātha
Aranātha is the eighteenth Tīrthaṅkara (ford‑maker) in the Jain tradition of the present half‑cycle (Avasarpini). In the provided sources he is presented as a spiritual exemplar born in the Ikshvaku dynasty at Hastinapur who attains siddhahood (liberation) after completing his life.
Arihant
In Jain doctrine an arihant is a soul (jiva) that has conquered inner passions and destroyed the four inimical (ghātiyā) karmas, thereby attaining kevala jñāna (omniscience) while still embodied; on final shedding of remaining karma an arihant attains siddhahood (moksha).
Chakreshvari
Chakreshvari (also Chakreshwari or Apraticakra) is an attendant goddess (yakshini) in Jain cosmology who serves as the guardian or tutelary deity of the first Tirthankara, Rishabhanatha. She is an object of popular devotion in Jain communities and is counted among the three yakshinis—alongside Ambika and Padmāvatī—that attract the most devotional worship.
Dharmanātha
Dharmanātha is the fifteenth Tirthankara of Jainism's present age (Avasarpini). Sources state he attained siddhahood (liberation by destroying all karma) and is portrayed in tradition as a supreme spiritual teacher who establishes the ford (tīrtha) across saṃsāra.
Gandharva
A class of non-human celestial or semi-celestial beings in Indic religions associated principally with music, song, dance, fertility, and an escort/guardian role for liminal arrivals (such as Soma or beings). In Hinduism they are minor deities and musicians of the devas; in Buddhist cosmology they are a low rank of devas and the term (gandhabba in Pāli/commentary) is also used doctrinally for a sentient intermediate state between death and rebirth.
Garuda
Garuda is a divine, eagle-like being in South Asian traditions best known as the vahana (mount) of the god Vishnu. In Vedic, Purānic and later texts he appears as a powerful, solar-associated bird-personage who is both an individual mythic personality (son of the sage Kaśyapa and Vinatā) and an archetype invoked in temple iconography and theological metaphor.
Guardians of the Directions (Dikpāla / Lokapāla)
A class of deities or divine offices that guard and sacralize spatial directions in South Asian and some Southeast Asian religious cosmologies. Appearing in Hinduism, Jainism and Vajrayāna Buddhism (and in regional systems such as Meitei and Javanese/Balinese traditions), they are represented in temple architecture and invoked as protectors of sacred space and the dharma.
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