KUNTHUNATHA
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Kunthunath was the seventeenth Jain Tirthankara, sixth Chakravartin and twelfth Kamadeva of the present half cycle of the Cosmic age (Avasarpini). According to Jain history, he became a Siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma (unfulfilled thoughts, words and actions and their consequences). Kunthunatha was born to King Sura (Surya) and Queen Sridevi at Hastinapur in the Ikshvaku dynasty on the fourteenth day of the Vaishakh Krishna month of the Indian calendar.
According to the Jain history, he was born in 27,695,000 BC, Like all other Chakravartin (Emperors), he also conquered all the lands and went to write his name on the foothills of mountains. Seeing the names of other Chakravartin already there, he saw his ambitions dwarfed. He then renounced his throne and became an ascetic for penance. At an age of 95,000 years he liberated his soul and attained Moksha (liberation) on Mount Shikharji.