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the name of the town akkal+Ishwar (god) i.e. Ankleshwar. They propounded that Ishwar (god) resides in every Jivatma (individual being).
One of the temples in the Mevada falia of Ankleshwar has an idol of Shri Mahavir Swami. In the complex of this temple, there is a small temple of Shashandevi. There is a wooden pillar covered with sheets of silver in the large open space in front of the temple. Shri Pushpadanta and Shri Bhutbali stayed here during a chaturmas and wrote Shatkhadagam Shashtra on palm-leaves. Hence Ankleshwar is also known as shrut-dham. The devotees erected the wooden pillar to commemorate this event. Seventeen manuscripts completed here are safely preserved in Mudbindri in Karnatak.
A great Jain sage Shri Dharmasenacharya lived in Girnar around the same time i.e. nearly 2200 years ago. He believed that all knowledge must be codified into shastras or systematized knowledge. When Shri Pushydanta and Shri Bhutbali came to Girnar from south, Dharmasenacharya urged the two men of stupendous learning to write books to systematize knowledge. Books used to be written on palm - leaves in those days and there was a large forest of palm - trees near Ankleshwar strectching as far as the sea.
One of the four temples in Ankleshwar houses an idol of Shri Chintamani Parshwanath. This sand-stone idol carries an inscription. The idols in the temples of Shri Neminath and Shri Adinathswami are made of black touch-stone. The temple Shri Mahavir Swami has an idol made of an alloy of five metals.
Chintamani Parshwanath Digambar Jain Temple
This temple houses a number idols made of stone and metals. Some of the idols need to be mentioned here.
The idol of Khadagasan Muni Maharaj is made of stone. It is 19" high. The Muni is holding a bowl in one hand and a rajoharana in another. The idol of Ajitnath is made out of white marble. There are five female door-guards too. The main idol is 16" high. In the lower part are carved Padmavati, two elephants and two tigers. The idol is considerably old.
The white marble 11" idol of Neminath bears a birth mark. The 12" white marble idol of Parshwanath is with a five-hooded serpent. The underground vault of the temple houses a 48" idol seated in Padmasan. The idol, painted in brown was originally recovered from Ramkund - a tank with steps of stones built all around it. The idol is very old. There is a 13" high metal image of Shri Parshwanath with a nine-hooded serpent on the first floor of the temple. There are a number of metal images and two images made of precious stones. There also is an ancient Khadgasan idol of black marble. It is 22" high.
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