(Sugar balls) and reciting of Nirvana Kanda. Parshvanatha has been called ' (beloved of the people) by Jains.

The earliest literary reference to Shikharji (Parasnath) as a tirth (place of Jain pilgrimage) is found in the Jñatrdharmakatha, one of the twelve core texts of Jainism compiled in 6th century BCE by chief disciple of Mahavira. Shikharji is also mentioned in the Parsvanathacarita, a twelfth-century biography