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Jaina Tirthamkaras and antiquity of Jainism
100,000 common years.307 His complexion has been described as golden.308 His first ganadhara and aryā were Cakrayuddha and Suci respectively.309 He attained moksa in the käyotsarga posture310 at Samet Sikhara.311
Kunthunātha — the seventeenth tirthamkara
According to the Svetāmbara tradition, Kunthunātha, the seventeenth tīrthamkara, was born at Gajapura; but the Digambara tradition holds that he was born at Hastinapura. 312 His father Sūra313 or Vasu314 or Suryasena315 was the king of Hastinapura316, and his mother's name was Śrī317 or Sri Devī.318 According to the Jaina tradition, Kunthunātha descended for incarnation from the heaven Sarvārthasiddha.319 He married at the insistence of his father and ruled for long. Thereafter, he took to asceticism. He became a kevalin under a tilaka tree at Gajapura after undertaking penance for sixteen years.320
According to the Jaina tradition, his height was 35 poles and he lived for 95,000 common years.321 His complexion has been described as golden.322 His
307. OISJ, pp. 66-70. 308. Ibid. ; ERE, VII, p. 466. 309. Ibid., pp. 66-70. 310. Ibid., p. 66. 311. TSPC, III, p. 335; JPV, p. 108. 312. JAA, I, p. 15. 313. TSPC, IV, pp. 1-2. 314. JPV, p. 112. 315. Ibid. 316. Ibid.; TSPC, IV, pp. 1-2. 317. TSPC, IV, pp. 1-2. 318. JPV, p. 112. 319. OIS), pp. 66-70. 320. JPV, p. 112. 321. OIS), pp. 66-70. 322. Ibid.; ERE, VII, p. 466.
