The animal symbol of the 17th Tirthankara Kunthunatha is the goat.
Kunthunatha is the seventeenth Tirthankara in the current Jain cosmological cycle, known as Avasarpini. Jain tradition says he was born at Hastinapur to King Surya and Queen Shridevi, within the Ikshvaku dynasty. Like other Tirthankaras, he is remembered as a teacher who attained liberation after renouncing worldly life and practicing asceticism.
Tirthankara symbols help devotees identify figures in Jain art, especially when several images appear together in a temple or manuscript. The goat belongs specifically to Kunthunatha; it should not be confused with the horse associated with Sambhavanatha, the monkey associated with Ajitanatha, or the deer associated with Shantinatha. These emblems are identifying attributes, not claims that the Tirthankaras worshipped those animals.
Kunthunatha is also traditionally described as the sixth Chakravartin, or universal monarch, and is said to have attained moksha at Sammed Shikhar, one of Jainism’s most important pilgrimage sites.