Supārśvanātha

According to traditional Jain accounts summarized in the provided sources, Supārśvanātha was born in Varanasi to King Pratistha and Queen Prithvi on 12 Jestha Shukla into the Ikshvaku clan. He is consistently placed in the canonical sequence as the seventh of the twenty-four Tīrthaṅkaras of the present aeon (avasarpini). The sources record that he attained moksha at Shikharji on the sixth day of the dark half of Phālguna. Biographical motifs such as royal parentage, clan affiliation, and attaining liberation at a sacred site follow the standard narrative pattern for Tīrthaṅkaras in Jain tradition.

In Jain iconography and museum cataloguing Supārśvanātha is represented as a Jina/Tīrthaṅkara figure within the conventional sculptural typology: often shown in kayotsarga (the standing meditative posture) or as a seated Jina in stone sculpture. Museum entries identify works as 'Digambara Jina Supārśvanātha' (for example a schist figure from Karnataka, c. 900), and he appears among chaturvimsati (twenty-four) Tīrthaṅkara reliefs following established conventions for depicting Tīrthaṅkaras. The provided sources do not supply a specific textual physical description (height, color, unique bodily attributes) or a distinct personal emblem in these excerpts, so descriptions rely on general Jina/Tīrthaṅkara visual conventions recorded in the museum and art-historical material.

The sources describe Supārśvanātha principally as a Tīrthaṅkara and siddha—an enlightened being who 'destructed all of his karma' and attained moksha. His defining role is soteriological: as an exemplar and spiritual ford (tīrtha) across saṃsāra for others to follow. The provided materials do not attribute specific miraculous powers, interventions, hostile behaviours, or particular supernatural abilities beyond this canonical role as an enlightened liberate.