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                  | Jain Teerth - Shri Shatrunjaya teerth, Palitana.    |  
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                                                      | Shri Digambar Jain Siddha Kshetra   Shatrunjaya Giri, Palitana |  
                                                      | Is an Siddha Kshetra   (Place of Salvation). |  
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                                                                                                  | Shri Shatrunjaya Digamber Jain   Dharmshala Bhairav Pura, Place & Post – Palitana, District – Bhav Nagar   (Gujarat) Pin – 364270
 Phone 02848-252542
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                                                                                                  | Shri Shatrunjaya Digamber Jain   Dharmshala Bhairav Pura, Place & Post – Palitana, District – Bhav Nagar   (Gujrat) Pin – 364270
 Phone 02848-252542
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                                                                                                  | Nearby City   : |  
                                                                                                                                                                                          | Songarh 22 km Bhav   Nagar 55 km
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                                                                                                                                                                                          | About Shatrunjaya Teerth : |  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Shri Shatrunjaya Giri, Palitana is an ancient famous place of   salvation, from where three Pandavas Yudhishthir, Bheem & Arjun got Nirvana   (Attain full & final liberation from world). This is a sacred place from   where 8 crores of Dravida Kings attained salvation by accepting penance for   self-purification, thus vanishing Ashta Karma. This Siddha Kshetra is described   in ancient Prakrit & Sansakrit texts. 
 Shatrunjaya Teerth is very   important Kshetra among-Shwetambara Jains. This is the only Teerth, where 3500   temples are built by Shwetambers. So many temples out of them are fine specimens   of art.
 
 Among these temples, like the moon among, stars in the sky.   There is an ancient Digamber Jain temple standing high situated within a   rampart.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | The Digamber Jain   temple on Shatrunjaya Teerth is an ancient temple, has 9 shrines with various   Teerthankaras idols installed.
 On the main shrine of temple, the   magnificent idol of principal deity 1008 Bhagwan Shantinath is installed, this   is 42 inch in height; in Padmasana posture made of white stone & was   installed in V.S. 1686. According to the inscription on idol, a famous   businessman of Ahmedabad installed this.
 
 Shri Ratnashi Dungarshi &   Family of Hummad Cast in the period of Mughal emperor Shahjahan on 5th day of   Vaishakha Shukla V.S. 1686 installation ceremony was headed by Bhattaraka   Padmanandi.
 
 In this temple, beautiful standing idols of Yudhishthir,   Bheem & Arjun are also installed in V.S. 2025, these three Pandavas attained   salvation from here.
 Two another idols of Bhagwan Parshvanath each 24 inch   in height in Padmasana posture are installed here, one is called Chintamani   Parshvanath and other is called Vighnaharan Parshvanath. Both were installed in   V.S. 1734.
 
 On the both sides of northern gate of temple foot images of   Bhagwan Adinath & Bhagwan Sambhavanath are installed. On the inner shrine   with attractive spires, there are three foot images of three Pandavas are also   installed.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | In Palitana city at   Mandavi Chawk, there is a beautiful magnificent temple of Digamber Jains, with   sky-high attractive spires. This was constructed in V.S. 1948 and installation   ceremony of this temple was organized in V.S. 1951 by Seth Shri Haribhai   Deokaran & Seth Shri Motichand Padamchand of Solapur under the headship of   Bhattaraka Kanak Keerti. 
 Sabha Mandap of the temple is very beautiful.   Metallic idol of principal deity Bhagwan Shantinath is very attractive, 30 inch   in height in Padmasana posture is installed on the main shrine of this temple.   Another idols on this shrine are Bhagwan Adinath & Bhagwan Chandraprabhu   each 26 inch in height and Bhagwan Arahnath & Bhagwan Ajitnath each 20 inch   in height in Padmasana posture. Other small metallic idols of various   Teerthankaras are also installed here.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Siddha Kshetra Shri Shatrunjaya   Teerth is situated on a hill, which is decorated by 3500 temples. Spires of the   temples attract pilgrims from a far distance. |  
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | In Palitana city, at   Bhairav Pura, a vast Digamber Jain Dharmashala exists with full modern   facilities built in V.S. 1951. This has 40 rooms with capacity of 150 pilgrims   at a time and is near the market.
 Dharmashala is simply 100 meters ahead   of Palitana bus stand and railway station is about 1.5 km from   Dharmashala.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Road – Buses are available from   Ahmedabad, Ghogha, Junagarh, Bhavnagar, Mehsana, Surat etc. Train – Trains   are available from Ahmedabad, Shihore, Surendranagar, Mehsana etc.
 Airport –   Ahmedabad
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Songarh 24 km Ghogha 60 km
 Girnar 170 km
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