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                    KUNDALPUR 
    ( Shri Digamber Jain Siddha Kshetra Kundalgiri)

 Location: Shri Digamber Jain Siddha Kshetra Kundalgiri  Dist. Damoh (M.P.) is located near to city Damoh 35 km and from city Sagar 113 km away. Busses are available from Damoh, Sagar, Jabalpur for Kundalpur. Damoh is situated on Beena Katni  railway Line. Kundalpur is a place full of natural  beauty.
 

Kundalpur  is famous for miraculous colossus of Bade Baba Bhagwan Adinath in sitting (Padmasana) posture 15 feet in height. It  is also a place of salvation of Antim Kevali Shridhar Kevali. Here 63 temples of various types are found, among them 22nd temple is famous for Bade Baba Bhagwan Adinath the principal deity. The 49th  temple is called Jal Mandir, an attractive temple situated in the middle of beautiful pond Vardhaman Sagar.  

  The colossus of Bade Baba and so many idols of Teerthankars brought latter in the same temple are supposed to be installed in 10th - 11th & 11th - 12th century.  It is clear from inscriptions on idols that Kundalpur was famous about year 1554 A.D. as Teerth Kshetra.   

  Jain temple at Kundalpur is Bade Baba Adinath’s Temple. The colossus is a piece of art rare in the world and two idols of Gomukha Yaksha and Chakreshwary Devi are carved in the back.
  On the both sides of Bade Baba idols of Bhagwan Parsvanath 12 feet in height are installed, really magnificent and artistic. So many other Teerthankar idols are also here installed in 10th to 12th century. Images of foot of Antim Shridhar Kevali are also installed in this temple who achieved salvation (Nirvan) from Kundalgiri.
  Managed by Shri Digamber Jain Siddha Kshetra Kundalgiri Prabandhakarini Samiti.
                                                                            

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