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दक्षिण
JAIN TEMPLES OF ANKLESHWAR
Ankleshwar is an ancient city too. It was known as Ankuleshwar in ancient period. There are four Jain temples of the Digambar sect viz. (i) Temple of Mahavir Swami (ii) temple of Adinath (iii) temple of Chintamani Parshwanath and (iv) temple of Neminath.
The inscriptions on the idols of these four temples tell us that the idols are as old as one thousand years. There are many ancient Yantras and idols. Shri Gunbhadracharya stayed here nearly one hundred years ago and wrote Siddhantashastra Dhaval, Jay Dhaval and completed an incomplete work called Maha Dhaval. All these works were written on palm-leaves. There is a large and rich collection of manuscripts here.
The temple of Adinath and the temple of Chintamani Parshwanath have an idol of Shri 108 Munimaharaj in Khadgasan, a yogic posture and the temple of Neminath has a Chomukhi idol of Shri 1008 Parshwanath Swami seated on a lotus or Kamalasan.
According a tradition prevailing around here till today, two highly intelligent Jain munis came to Ankleshwar once upon a distant past. Now intelligence can be translated in Gujarati as akkal. Hence
Jain Kashthapat Chitra : 61
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