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(31) Sri Digamber Temple Jain Parshavanath, Samed Shikar, Parshvanath
Plate number: - LXIV (L)
Mulnayak: almost 92 cm in height, black-colored Parshvanath Baba idol (Baba Shamaliya Parshvanath) in the Padmasana posture.
This temple of Lord Sri Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankar is the Mokashanagari of Sammed Shikharji Giriraj. After seeing the temple, after reaching Mokshanagari, one gets lost in the real joy and pleasure of seeing paramatmas directly. This is the highest temple on the highest hill. There are 80 steps leading to the Lord temple, "Meghadambar" is another name for this temple. There are idols of Lord standing on the stone slab where Lord reached final liberation. This stone slab is adorable. At this peak there is a temple of the pinnacle. In it, there are the standing idols of Baba Purusadaniya Parshvanath.
The temple is finished with marble. The temple main garbhagriha is square with size 14'-0" X 14'-0" have vedi with Parshvanath foot idols miniature in marble with combination of dome and pyramidical shikhara, mandapam (14'-0" X 12'-0"). The total height of temple is about 50"-3". It has entry from three sides. The mandapam of the temple has a marble finish decorative grooved dome and garbhagriha has pyramidical shikhara with spire. The temple is constructed with brick and lime mortar
with marble cladding (Kothi, 2018).
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