Jahazpur is a city and a

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Bhilwara district Bhilwara District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Bhilwara is the district headquarters. History Stone Age tools dating from 5,000 to 200,000 years were found in Bundi and Bhilwara districts of the state. ...

in the

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.It is also the tehsil headquarters of the Jahazpur tehsil. It is commonly popular for a temple called Jain temple swastidham and built around a

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History

According to legend, the fort of Jahazpur was originally built by Samprati, grandson of the great

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emperor

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, who was a follower of Jainism. This fort used to protect the terrain of Hadoti Bundi and Mewar like a giridwar. In the tenth century, Rana Kumbha rebuilt the fort of Jahazpur. Jahazpur is an ancient town in Rajasthan near

Bundi Bundi is a city in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India and capital of the former princely state of Rajputana agency. District of Bundi is named after the former princely state. Demographics According to the 2011 Indian cens ...

and Shahpura, towns of

Bhilwara Bhilwara () is a city, administrative headquarters in Bhilwara district of the Mewar region of Rajasthan, India. It has been termed as 'Textile city'. History Stone Age tools dating from 5,012 to 200,000 years were found in Bundi and Bhilw ...

(polar coordinates: 25 ° 37'7 "N 75 ° 16'32" E), and the town of Deoli in

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, . The ruins of several ancient Jain temples have been found at Jahazpur. It is also a municipal and assembly constituency. This area is full of mineral wealth.

Geography

Jahazpur is located at . It has an average elevation of . There is a Jain Mandir in the shape of a ''Jahaz (ship)'' being built there popularized as Atishay Kshetra dedicated to Bhagwan Munisuvrata Nath.The under construction temple is on the Jahazpur-Shahpura (Bhilwara) State Highway No. 39 which is around 24 km from Deoli,a town in the Tonk District of Rajasthan on the National Highway running from

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Demographics

India

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, Jahazpur had a population of 18,816. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Jahazpur has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 45%. In Jahazpur,16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Shri 1008 Munisuvratnath Jain Mandir

Jahazpur along with Hasteda is known for its ancient idols of Munisuwartnath. The temple at Jahazpur and hasteda is dedicated to

Munisuvrata Munisuvrata () was the twentieth ''tirthankara'' of the present half time cycle (''avasarpini'') in Jain cosmology. He became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of his karma. Events of the Jaina version of Ramayana are placed ...

the twentieth Tirthankara of Jainism. The Moolnayak idol at newly built the Jahaj (ship) shaped temple at Jahazpur is a black-coloured idol of Munisuvrata Swami. This temple has been constructed with the inspiration of Shri 105 Swasti Bhushan Mataji. The idol is considered miraculous by Jains. The statue of Munisuvrat Nath was unearthed from the ground dug for the construction of a house in Jahazpur in 2013.

Shri 1008 Bhooteshwar Mahadev

There is a historical temple of Hindu god Shiva in the village of Luhari-Kalan and is famous among the locals.

Jahazpur State

Jahazpur State was founded in 1572 by Jagmal Singh when he was denied the Kingship so he went to Mughal service and

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Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...

gifted him Jahazpur Jagir, he used Rao as his title; Jahazpur State existed until 1758, when the invading

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forces invaded the Jahazpur fort, forcing the rulers to shift to Anjar.

Raos of Jahazpur

* Rao Jagmal Singh (1572 – 1583) - (b. 1545 - d. 1583) * Rao Vijay Singh (1583 – 1620) - (b. 1568 - d. 1620) * Rao Prithviraj Singh (1620 – 1628) - (b. 1590 - d. 1628) * Rao Gajraj Singh (1628 – 1660) - (b. 1615 - d. 1660) * Rao Maandev (1660 – 1678) - (b. 1638 - d. 1678) * Rao Surajdev (1678 – 1734) - (b. 1664 - d. 1734) * Rao Shaktidev (1734 – 1738) - (b. 1688 - d. 1738) * Rao Hamirji (1738 – 1758) - (b. 1708 - d. 1788)

References

External links

www.Jahazpur.com
{{Bhilwara district Cities and towns in Bhilwara district