Shri Shitalnath: life and stories
Following the Shwetambar tradition, chiefly Acharya Shri Hemchandracharya's Trishashti Shalaka Purush Charitra and the Kalpasutra. Kalyanak tithis are in Gujarati months.
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In a former life he was a king in Mahavideh who took diksha and, through the aradhana of the twenty sthanak, bound the Tirthankar naam karma; he was then born as a dev in the higher devlok.
On Chaitra Vad 6 his soul came into the womb of Queen Nanda, wife of King Dridharath of Bhaddilpur, and she saw the fourteen great dreams.
The tradition says that King Dridharath suffered from a burning fever that no remedy could cool, until the touch of the queen, carrying the Prabhu, made his body cool (shital). So the child was named Shital. His chinh is the shrivatsa.
He was born on Posh Vad 12, and the Indras celebrated the janmabhishek on Meru.
After the Lokantik devs came to request him and a year of varshidaan, he took diksha on Posh Vad 12 with a thousand kings.
He attained kevalgyan on Magshar Vad 14; the devs built the samavasaran and the fourfold sangh was set up.
On Chaitra Vad 2 Shri Shitalnath attained nirvan on Sammet Shikhar.