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Vidisha is considered to be Puranakshetras Jain tirtha. The Jain temples are located in
Vidisha district Vidisha District (Hindi: विदिशा; ) is in Madhya Pradesh state, in central India. The city of Vidisha is the administrative headquarters of the district. Geography The district is bounded by the districts of Ashoknagar to the northea ...
in state of
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,
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. According to Jain belief, Vidisha is the birthplace of
Shitalanatha Shitalanatha was the tenth tirthankara of the present age according to Jainism. According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Jains believe Shitalanatha was born to King Dradhrath and Quee ...
, the tenth tirthankar. Here the first 108 feet elevated temple with all Tirthankaras with Shitalanatha as the principal deity is under construction.


Jain cave

According to Jain belief, Vidisha is one of the first places where the Jain images were worshipped. The earliest of these are two Jain caves of Udayagiri. Only a torso remains of one cave, and this torso is now exhibited in an open-air museum. Cave 20 is the only cave in the Udayagiri Caves complex is dedicated to Jainism. It is on the northwestern edge of the hills. At the entrance is the image of the Jain Tirthankara Parshvanatha sitting under a serpent hood. The cave is divided into five rectangular rooms with stones stacked, the total length of that is about deep.


Jain temples


Bada Mandir

Bada Mandir is one of the fourteen Jain temples present in Vidisha. The temple is built in
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. The bada mandir consists of a miraculous Jain idol which is considered to be older than the temple.


Bajramath Jain temple

Bajramath Jain temple is situated in Gyaraspur and dates back to the 9th century. This temple enshrines three
garbhagriha A ''garbhagriha'' () is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, often referred to as the "holy of holies" or " sanctum sanctorum". The term ''garbhagriha'' (literally, "womb chamber") comes from the Sanskrit words ''garbha'' for ...
s with the temple is fully decorated with Jain sculptures. The temple was earlier a Brahmical temple dedicate to
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but was transformed to a Jain temple. All three shrines of this temple are now occupied with idols of
tirthankara In Jainism, a ''Tirthankara'' (; ) is a saviour and supreme preacher of the ''Dharma (Jainism), dharma'' (righteous path). The word ''tirthankara'' signifies the founder of a ''Tirtha (Jainism), tirtha'', a fordable passage across ''Saṃsā ...
s.


Maladevi temple

Maladevi temple dates back to the 9th century. This is a rock-cut temple built in
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style. The temple was initially a Brahmical temple but later converted to a Jain worship site. The temple is dedicated to
Adinatha Rishabhanatha (Devanagari: ऋषभनाथ), also Rishabhadeva (Devanagari: ऋषभदेव, ), Rishabha (Devanagari: ऋषभ, ) or Ikshvaku (Devanagari: इक्ष्वाकु, ''Ikṣvāku''), is the first (Supreme preacher) ...
. The Maladevi temple is considered one of the best examples of its collection of varied Jain sculptures.


Gadarmal Devi temple

Gadarmal Devi temple dates back to the 9th century. The architecture of this yogini temple is a fusion of
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and Parmara styles. It is built similar to
Teli ka Mandir Teli Temple, also known as Teli ka Temple, is a Hindu temple located within the Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh, India. Dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Matrikas, it has been variously dated between the early 8th and early 9th century CE. It is an ...
in
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. This temple houses both Hindu and Jain idols. The temple is made of sandstone with seven small shrines surrounding the main shrine.


Pathari Jain temples

Pataria Jain temples was built in the 9th century in Badoh city. These are a cluster of 25 temples with the main shrine surmounted with
shikhara ''Shikhara'' (IAST: '), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India, and also often used in Jain temples. A ''shikhara'' over the ''garbhagriha'' chamber ...
s; the other shrines have a flat roof, shikharas, and dome.


Restoration

In 1930,
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state stepped up to conserve Maladevi temple. All of the monuments in Vidisha are protected by
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.


Gallery

File:Pataria Jain Temple, Badoh.jpg, Pataria Jain temple File:Bajramath Temple Gyaraspur.jpg, Bajramath Jain temple File:Bajramath Temple N-MP-280 (23).jpg, Carvings of
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on wall of Bajramath Jain temple File:Bajramath Temple N-MP-280 (28).jpg, Image of Adinatha inside Bajramath Jain temple File:Gadarmal Temple Badoh.jpg, Gadarmal Devi temple


See also

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Siddhachal Caves Siddhachal Caves or Siddhanchal Jain Collosi are Jain cave monuments and colossal carved into the rock face inside the Urvahi Gate of the Gwalior Fort in Gwalior, India. There are the most visited among the five groups of Jain rock carvings in ...
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Gwalior fort The Fort of Gwalior or the Gwalior Fort is a 6th century defence hill fort in Gwalior, India. Mughal Emperor Babur called it the "pearl amongst the fortresses of Hind" because of its impregnability and magnificence and it has also been nickna ...
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Vidisha Vidisha (विदिशा, formerly known as Bhelsa and known as Besnagar and Bhaddilpur in ancient times) is a city in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Vidisha district. It is located 62.5 km north ...
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Sironj Sironj is a town and a municipality in Vidisha district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Its also a Tehsil Headquarter. History Sironj was previously known as Sengar Raj.It was founded by Sengar Rajput warrior Shankar Singh in 1103 A.D. D ...


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