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Witness the spiritual grandeur of Palitana Jain Temples in Gujarat 🌄✨ A sacred hill with 800+ temples, offering peace, devotion, and breathtaking views.

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🌄 Climb the sacred 3,800 steps to Shri Shatrunjaya Temples in Palitana — one of the holiest pilgrimage sites for Jains. 🛕 Feel the spiritual energy, marvel at the 800+ marble temples, and witness panoramic views that touch the soul. 🕊️✨

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The #PalitanaTemples of Jainism are located on #ShatrunjayaHill by the city of Palitana in #Bhavnagar district, #Gujarat, India. The city of the same name, known previously as #Padliptapur, has been dubbed "City of Temples". Shatrunjaya means a "place of victory against inner enemies" or "which conquers inner enemies". According to the Shatrunjaya Mahatmya, the first Tirthankara Rishabha sanctified the hill where he delivered his first sermon. It was his grandson Pundarika, grandson of Rishabha who attained Nirvana at Shatrunjay, hence the hill was originally known as "Pundarikgiri". There exists a marble image of Pundaraksvami consecrated in V.S. 1064 (1120 CE) by Shersthi Ammeyaka to commemorate the sallekhana of a muni belonging to the Vidhyadhara Kula.  Bharata Chakravartin, the father of Pundarik and half-brother of Bahubali, also came to Shatrunjaya many times. He is also credited with building a temple here in honour of his father Rishabha. Legendarily it is also associated with many other Tirthankaras.⁣ ⁣ #ThePalitanaTemples were built over a period of 900 years starting in the 11th century. Kumarpal Solanki, a great Jain patron, probably built the earliest temples. It is said that sculptors' skills and capacity to carve with abrasive cords (not tools) the intricate designs was paid on the basis of the marble dust that they had collected every evening after their hard labour. They were destroyed by Turkish Muslims invaders in 1311 AD, when the saint Jinaprabhasuri, who was then 50 years old, presided over the temples. ⁣ ⁣ Two years later, the rebuilding began. While some temple building activity took place under Samara Shah, it was only two centuries later that it picked up momentum, when in 1593, Hiravijayasuri (Chief of Tapa Gaccha) organised a major pilgrimage to this location to attend the consecration ceremony of the temple built for Rishabha by Tej Pal Soni, a merchant. Following this, there was proliferation of temples here.⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B8IX_SNhSW1/?igshid=1pc6tjl45slmx