Jain Pilgrimage

Author(s): Hastinapur Jain Shwetambar Tirth Committee
Publisher: Hastinapur Jain Shwetambar Tirth Committee

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TIRTHA HASTINAPUR
BY
Ganpat Lal A. Shah.
Hastinapur is one of the holiest and most sacred of the Jain pilgrimages. At the dawn of Aryan civilization in India the first Tirthankara of Jainism Lord Rishabha Dev came to this place with a message of Ahimsa, love and truth and gave up his one-year old fast by taking sugarcane juice from the King of Hastinapur, Shri Sreyamsa Kumar on the Akshay Tritiya day (third day of the month of Vaishak). To commemorate this occasion Sreyamsa Kumar erected a stupa and a shrine with foot-prints of Lord Rishabha Dev. Thousands of Jains visit this place on Akshay Tritiya day for parana of the annual fast and receive the message and inspiration from the shrine of their First