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PALITANA - THE JAIN PILGRIMAGE CENTER PALITANA THE JAIN PILGRIMAGE CENTER THE MARVEL OF JAINISM AND THE RELIGIOUS ART PALITANA IS THE LARGEST AND THE GREATEST.

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1 PALITANA - THE JAIN PILGRIMAGE CENTER PALITANA THE JAIN PILGRIMAGE CENTER THE MARVEL OF JAINISM AND THE RELIGIOUS ART PALITANA IS THE LARGEST AND THE GREATEST JAIN SACRED PILGRIMAGE CENTER IN THE WORLD. CREATED BY VIPUL M DESAI http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ SPEAKERS ON CLICK FOR NEXT

2 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE PALITANA HILLS IS PLACE FROM WHERE MILLIONS OF SOULS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ACHIEVED NIRAVANA OR ULTIMATE AND EVERLASTING LIBERATION WITH INFINITE KNOWLEDGE, INFINTE PERCEPTION, INFINTE ENERGY AND INFINITE SPIRITUAL HAPPINESS. THE PALITANA HILLS IS PLACE FROM WHERE MILLIONS OF SOULS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ACHIEVED NIRAVANA OR ULTIMATE AND EVERLASTING LIBERATION WITH INFINITE KNOWLEDGE, INFINTE PERCEPTION, INFINTE ENERGY AND INFINITE SPIRITUAL HAPPINESS.

3 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ PALITANA IS A CITY IN BHAVANGAR DISTRICT OF STATE OF GUJARAT, IN INDIA. IT IS SITUATED ABOUT FIFTY KILOMETERS SOUTHWEST OF BHAVNAGAR CITY

4 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ 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 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ 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 SOME 900 YEARS BY GENERATIONS OF JAINS STARTING FROM 11TH CENTURY

6 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ 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 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE TEMPLES ARE EXQUISITELY CARVED IN MARBLE RESEMBLING IVORY IN LOOK. THE LEADING TEMPLE IS OF LORD ADISHWAR

8 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THIS TEMPLE HAS A FABULOUS COLLECTION OF EXPENSIVE JEWELS DEDICATED BY RICH JAIN PATRONS

9 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE TEMPLES DATE FROM 11th TO THE 20th CENTURY

10 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE DAY OF THE FAGUN SUD 13th FALLING SOMEWHERE IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH IS THE MOST VISITED AND CROWDED DAY SOME FACTS ABOUT PALITANA. 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

11 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ MOTI SHAH TOONK(TEMPLE) AT THE TOP OF THE SIDDHACHA HILLS THE CLIMB MUST BEGIN IN EARLY MORNING AND RETURN DESCENT MUST BE COMPLETED IN EVENING. NO STAYING OVERNIGHT

12 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THERE ARE MORE THAN 27000 IDOLS OF JAIN GODS ON THIS MOUNTAIN ALONE

13 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ OVERNIGHT STAY IS FORBIDDEN FOR ALL HUMANS AS IT IS PEACEFUL RESTING PLACE FOR GODS

14 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THERE ARE TWO SUMMITS WITH 900 TEMPLES W THERE ARE TWO SUMMITS WITH 900 TEMPLES WITH EXTRAORDINARY ART AND SCULPTURE SAMAVASHARANA TEMPLE IN PALITANA VALLEY

15 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE PALITANA IS ALSO KNOWN AS SIDDHAKSHETRA A PLACE FROM WHERE A SOUL GETS NIRVANA

16 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ CARVING IN LIMESTONES IN NEMINATH TEMPLE, SHATRUNJAY HILLS, PALITANA

17 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ THE MAIN TEMPLE CONTAINS THE IDOL OF LORD NEMINATH

18 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ EVERY SHRINE HAS IDOLS OF LORD TIRTHANAKARS ADORNED WITH PRECIOUS JEWELLED EYES

19 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF JAINS CALLED "HRIMKARA" WITH TWENTY FOUR LORD TIRTHANKARS ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOL OF JAINS ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOL OF JAINS CALLED "OMKARA" WITH PANCH PARMESHTHI OR THE THE FIVE BEST MOST VENERABLE HUMAN RELIGIOUS ACHIEVERS

20 TIRTHANAKR SUMATINATH, MULNAYAK SANCHA SUMATINATH TEMPLE, TALHETI, PALTANA http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/

21 http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/ SRI ADINATHA RISHABHA DEVA THE FIRST LORD TIRTHANKARA, HAS SRI ADINATHA RISHABHA DEVA THE FIRST LORD TIRTHANKARA, HAS THE PRIMARY IDOL IN THIS AGAM MANDIR IN PALITANA TALHETI

22 BRILLIANT IDOL OF FIRST TIRTHANKAR LORD RISHABHADEVA ALSO KNOWN AS LORD ADINAATHA CREATED BY VIPUL M DESAI http://suratiundhiyu.wordpress.com/


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