Palitana temples
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The Palitana temples, often known only as Palitana, are a large complex of Jain temples located on Shatrunjaya hills near Palitana in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India. Also known as "Padliptapur of
Jain temples on Shatrunjaya hill near Palitana, Gujarat
General Plan of Palitana temples
The idol of Rishabhanatha inside main temple
An 1866 sketch of Palitana temples
Rishabhanatha
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Rishabhanatha, also Rishabhadeva, Rishabha or Ikshvaku, is the first tirthankara of Jainism. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain cosmology and called a "
The idol of Lord Rishabhanatha at Kundalpur, Madhya Pradesh
Birth of the Tirthankara Rishabha, folio from the Devasano Pado Kalpasutra, Kalpasutra and Kalakacharya Katha. Gujarat, c. 1500. Bharat Kala Bhavan
An idol of Rishabha with mother Marudevi at Palitana
Ruins of ancient Jain settlement from 2nd century BCE in Kankali Tila, Mathura depicting the scene of Nilanjana's Dance from life of Rishabhdeva.