Shatrunjay a Pilgrimage

Author(s): Manu Doshi
Publisher: Indira Mansukhlal Doshi Memorial Trust

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NAV TUK
Besides the main Tuk, there are 8 temple complexes on the hill. All of them together are known as Navtuk. These Tuks can be approached from the main Tuk. But they can also be reached by the route bifurcating from Hanumän Hadä mentioned earlier. Let us therefore describe it via that route.
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The Gate of Navtuk There is a very simple gate for entering Navtuk. On the left side after the entry, there is the tomb of Ingärshä, which seems to have been erected during the Muslim rule. Some devotees, however, consider Ingärshä as the care taker Pir of Adinath and offer obeisance to it accrdingly. The Pir is also supposed to bless the devotees for getting children. Some childless people therefore pray there for child and if they get one, they lay cradles there. The people in charge of the tomb deliberately display such cradles so as to attract pilgrims towards the tomb.
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