 He is said to have attained "moksha" at Śikharji on the sixth day of the dark half of the month of "Phālguna".Suparśvanātha was the seventh Jain "Tīrthankara" of the present age ("avasarpini").He was born to King Pratistha and Queen Prithvi at Varanasi on 12 Jestha Shukla in the Ikshvaku clan.