PALITANA - one of the SEVEN wonders of India !

PALITANA Bhavnagar Gujrat

[1]

PALITANA IS THE LARGEST AND THE MOST SACRED PLACE OF WORSHIP FOR JAINS FROM

ALL OVER THE WORLD

[2] THE PALITANA HILL IS PLACE FROM WHERE MILLIONS

OF SOULS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ACHIEVED

NIRAVANA OR ULTIMATE AND EVERLASTING

LIBERATION WITH INFINITE KNOWLEDGE, INFINTE

PERCEPTION, INFINITE ENERGY AND INFINITE SPIRITUAL HAPPINESS.

[3] PALITANA IS A CITY IN BHAVANGAR DISTRICT

OF STATE OF GUJARAT , IN INDIA . IT IS SITUATED ABOUT FIFTY

KILOMETERS

SOUTHWEST  OF BHAVNAGAR CITY . .

[4] THE TEMPLE COMPLEX OF PALITANA IS

THE WORLD'S

LARGEST AND CONSIDERED THE MOST SACRED

PILGRIMAGE PLACE BY THE JAINS ALL OVER THE

WORLD. THERE ARE SOME 3000 EXQUISITE

TEMPLES

WITH MARVELLOUS ART ON SHATRUNJAY

HILLS.  THE FIRST TIRTHANKAR LORD ADINATHA OR

RISHABHDEVA HAS THE MOST PRONOUNCED

PLACEMENT.

[5] ON TOP OF THE SHATRUNJAYA HILL IS A

CLUSTER

OF JAIN TEMPLES BUILT OVER SOME 900

YEARS

BY GENERATIONS OF JAINS STARTING

FROM 11TH CENTURY

[6] FROM THE FOOT OF THE HILL TO THE TOP

THERE

ARE MORE THAN 3,800 STONE STEPS

CARVED OUT

FROM ROCKS TO FACILITATE CLIMBING

IN 13TH

CENTURY

[7]

THE TEMPLES ARE EXQUISITELY CARVED IN

MARBLE

RESEMBLING IVORY IN LOOK. THE LEADING

TEMPLE IS

OF LORD ADISHWAR.

[8] THIS TEMPLE HAS A FABULOUS COLLECTION

OF

EXPENSIVE JEWELS DEDICATED BY

RICH JAIN PATRONS.

[9]

THE TEMPLES DATE FROM 11th TO THE 20th CENTURY

[10] THE DAY OF THE FAGUN SUD 13th FALLING SOME

WHERE IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH IS THE MOST

VISITED AND CROWDED DAY

[11] A JAIN ASPIRES TO CLIMB TO THE TOP OF MOUNTAIN

ONCE IN HIS LIFE TIME

[12] MOTI SHAH TOONK( TEMPLE ) AT THE TOP OF

THE SIDDHACHA HILLS

[13] THE CLIMB MUST BEGIN IN EARLY MORNING AND

RETURN DESCENT MUST BE COMPLETED IN

EVENING. NO STAYING OVERNIGHT

[14] SOME FACTS ABOUT PALITANA. SHETRUNJAY  TEMPLES; STEPS TO CLIMB:

3364 HEIGHT: 2000 FEET. WALKING: 7.5 MILES. PRATIMA OR IDOLS ARE 27007 IN JINMANDIR

OR TEMPLES TOTALLING 3507

[15]  THERE ARE MORE THAN 27000 IDOLS OF JAIN

GODS ON THIS MOUNTAIN ALONE

[16] OVERNIGHT STAY IS FORBIDDEN FOR ALL HUMANS

AS IT IS PEACEFUL RESTING PLACE FOR GODS

[17] THERE ARE TWO SUMMITS WITH 900 TEMPLES

WITH EXTRAORDINARY ART AND SCULPTURE

[18] SAMAVASHARANA  TEMPLE IN PALITANA

VALLEY

[19] THE PALITANA IS ALSO KNOWN AS SIDDHAKSHETRA

A PLACE   FROM WHERE A SOUL GETS NIRVANA

[20] CARVING IN LIMESTONES IN NEMINATH TEMPLE ,

SHATRUNJAY HILLS, PALITANA

[21] THE MAIN TEMPLE CONTAINS THE IDOL OF

LORD NEMINATH

[22]

EVERY SHRINE HAS IDOLS OF LORD TIRTHANAKARS

ADORNED WITH PRECIOUS JEWELLED EYES

[23] ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF JAINS CALLED

"HRIMKARA"  WITH TWENTY FOUR LORD TIRTHANKARS

[24]  ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOL OF JAINS CALLED

"OMKARA" WITH PANCH PARMESHTHI OR THE THE

FIVE BEST MOST VENERABLE HUMAN RELIGIOUS

ACHIEVERS

[25] TIRTHANAKR SUMATINATH, MULNAYAK SANCHA

SUMATINATH TEMPLE , TALHETI, PALTANA

[26]  SRI ADINATHA RISHABHA DEVA THE FIRST LORD

TIRTHANKARA, HAS THE PRIMARY IDOL IN THIS AGAM

MANDIR IN PALITANA TALHETI

[27] BRILLIANT IDOL OF FIRST TIRTHANKAR LORD

RISHABHADEVA ALSO KNOWN AS LORD ADINAATHA

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