tirthankaras/tk-10-shitalanatha.jpg · 1200×1600His father suffered from a burning fever that no physician could cure. During the pregnancy, the queen's touch cooled it — and the child was named for coolness. It is the gentlest of the naming stories, and devotees remember him as a healer of fevers.
He is also the clearest example of the two traditions differing on something as basic as an emblem: Svetambara images show the shrivatsa, an auspicious mark; Digambara images show the kalpavriksha, the wish-fulfilling tree. Neither is wrong — they are two lines of transmission.
