A Wikipedia article on Parshvanatha, the 23rd of the 24 Tirthankaras of Jainism and the earliest Tirthankara generally acknowledged by historians as a historical figure, though his exact dates are debated, placed by some scholars in the 8th to 7th century BCE against the Jain tradition's own 9th to 8th century BCE dating. The article describes his standard iconographic emblem as the snake, with images typically showing a multi-headed serpent fanned like an umbrella above his head and a cobra carved beneath his feet, tied to the legend of the serpent king Dharanendra spreading a canopy of a thousand hoods over him and the goddess Padmavati coiling protectively around his body while he meditated.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm Parshvanatha's identity as the 23rd Tirthankara and his standard serpent-canopy iconography, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record naming him directly in the title of this sculpture. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parshvanatha
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Padmavati directly: "hoods over him and the goddess Padmavati coiling protectively around his body while he meditated."
This source names Parshvanatha directly: "A Wikipedia article on Parshvanatha, the 23rd of the 24 Tirthankaras of Jainism and the earliest Tirthankara generally acknowledged by historians as a historical figure, though his exact dates are..."
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