________________
Svayambhūstotra
Lord Kunthunātha Lord Kunthunātha, the seventeenth Tīrthankara and the sixth cakravartī, was born in the town of Hastināpura, to Queen Srimatī and King Sūryasena on the first day of the bright half of the month of Vaišākha – vai ākha śukla pratipadā. His pious soul had descended from the Sarvārthasiddhi (anuttara) super-heaven which has the life-span of 33 sāgaropama. Lord's birth was celebrated with great rejoicing by the devas and the men.
Lord Kunthunātha was born as one-half of a palyopama and 5,000 years passed after the birth of the sixteenth Tīrthankara, Lord śāntinātha.
The Lord attained the height of 35 dhanușa.
After spending 23,750 years as youth (kumārakāla), Lord Kunthunātha ruled for a total of 47,500 years (rājyakāla). After 23,750 years of rule as the King, Lord Kunthunātha obtained the divine cakraratna and won six divisions of earth in all directions. The Lord became the sixth cakravarti of the present half-cycle of time. He spent 23,750 years of His rājyakāla as cakravarti.
Reflecting on His past lives through the power of clairvoyance, Lord Kunthunātha developed a deep sense of renunciation for the world and adopted the truly worthy path of asceticism that leads to immortality. For the next 16 years (chadmasthakāla) He undertook severe karma-destroying austerities and then attained the allembracing knowledge - Omniscience (kevalajñāna) – that has the power to see the three worlds, as it were, in a mirror. The devas erected the heavenly Pavilion (samavasaraṇa) where bhavya souls - devas, men and women, and even animals - assemble to hear the Lord. He preached Truth for 23,734 years (kevalakāla).
Lord Kunthunātha lived for 95,000 years and attained liberation (nirvāna) from Sammeda Sikhara on the first day of the bright half of the month of Vaišākha – vaiśākha śukla pratipadā.
Chief among the Lord's Apostles (ganadhara) was sage Svaymbhū Svāmī.
200
