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tank rise up the hills Candragiri and Indragiri or Vindhyagiri. The former is associated with the penance of the great saint Bhadrabāhu and his royal disciple, Chandragupta Maurya. On the Vindhyagiri stands the world-renowed fiftyseven feet high colossus of Gommațesa Bahubalī. Many myths and miracles are associated with the image. There are numerous other monuments and inscriptions scattered all over the place. More important of the other Atiśaya-kşetras are the Padmāvatī temple at Humcha in the Mysore State; Nagercoil near Cape Comorin in the far south; Vighneswara Pārsva temple at Aste near Alund in Andhra; Maksi Pārsvanātha (near Ujjain), Kundalpura (near Damoh) in Madya Pradesh; Ramgiri alias Ramtek (near Nagpur), Antariksa Pārsvanātha (near Akola), and Bhatakuli (near Amravati), Kesariyānātha in Maharashtra; Rishabhdev (near Udaipur), Bijoliya Pārsvanātha (in district Bhilwara), Shrimahāvīraji and Padmapura (both near Jaipur) in Rajasthan.
Among the Jaina Kala-kştras, particularly noteworthy for their art treasures, including beautiful temple complexes, sculptures, reliefs, and other fruits of creative imagination, ancient and medieval, which have sanctified these sites and made them places of pilgrimage, are: Deogarh, Khajuraho, Chanderi, Gwalior, Ahar, Papaura, Pacharai, Thubonji, Binaji, Ajaigarh, Gyaraspur, Chandpur, Banpur, and Madanpur, all lying in the Bundelkhand region of U.P. and M.P.; Mt. Abu with its world-famed Delwara temples, Ranakapur, Chittor, Osia, Chandkheri, Kumbharia, Achalgarh, Sadri, Ajmer and Jaipur-Amer, in Rajasthan; the cave temples of Ellora, Ajanta, Badami and Dharasiva; and places like Kopana, Gerusoppe, Dahigaon, Bahubali-Kumbhoj, Hampi, Belur, Varangal, and Halebid, in the Deccan, and the Gommața colossi at Karkala, Venur, Shramanappagiri, Hastihalli, and Dharmasthala; Mudabidri with its Jina images made in various precious stones, Arppakam, Thiruparuttikkunaram, Tirumalai, Sittannavasal and Conjeevaram, in South India.
