Shankheshwar Jain Temple
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The Shankheshwar Shwetambar Jain Tirth is located in the center of Shankheshwar town of Patan district, Gujarat, India. The temple is dedicated to Parshwanath and is an important place of pilgrimage f
Shankeshwar Jain Temple
The iconic idol of Parshvanatha at Shankheshwar Śvetāmbara Jain Temple, Gujarat
The face of the idol of Parshvanatha at Shankheshwar Śvetāmbara Jain Temple, Gujarat
Sculptures and Shikharas at Shankheswar Jain Temple
Śvetāmbara
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The Śvetāmbara is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara. Śvetāmbara in Sanskrit means "white-clad", and refers to its ascetics' practice of wearing white clothes, whic
Shankheshwar Jain Temple
…Jalmandir at Ratanpura. Thus Shankeshwar tirth ranks next only to those on Mount Shatrunjaya in Palitana, (Gujarat) in terms of importance to the Swetambara Jains. There are an upashray, an ayambilshala, a bhandar, a pathshala, and a hall where food is given to pilgrims for their journeys…
An idol of the 23rd tirthankara Parshvanatha at a Jain temple in Mysore, depicting Śvetāmbara iconography
14th century Ārya Sthūlabhadra idol at the Khaḍākhoṭadī no Pāḍo Jaina Temple at Patan
The Adishvara temple at Shatrunjaya, one of the principal pilgrimage centres of the Śvetāmbara Mūrtipūjaka tradition
Carved marble dome of a Jain temple at the Dilwara Temples, Mount Abu