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Digambar
Jain Bara Mandir Ladnu (Rajasthan)
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Location: Digambar
Jain Bara Mandir (Sukhdev Ashram) is situated in the heart of Ladnun town, dist. Nagur,
Rajasthan. Ladnun town is connected by rail via Delhi-Jodhpur railway
rail route. This town is connected by road to most of
major cities of Rajasthan. Ladnun
is an ancient and historical town.
The Digambar Jain Bara Mandir is
a magnificent temple houses several artistic and rare idols of Jain
Thirthankara, beautiful images, engraved pillars, rare pieces of art
and old jain dharma manuscripts. |
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The
temple view at night |
The
sixteenth tirthankara Bhagwan Santinathji idol is established on
the main Vedi. The beautiful and matchless idol of Bhagavan
Santnathji is made of marble with a dimension of 94x70 cm.
In front of
the idol there is a rare piece of artistic door ( Toran-dwar)
placed on two marble pillars. On the two pillars, two artful and
rare images of godless Sarswati are engraved. There is an inception
found on the door which indicate that the temple is build on Ashad
Sukla 8, Samvat 1136. This writing indicate that the temple is more
than 1000 years old. |
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In
the second Vedica chamber, there is an idol of second
Tirthankar Bhagavan Ajitnathji. This idol is 74x60 cm in dimension
and made of marble. An inscription found on the the idol
written Baisak Sukla 13, Smawat 1209. In front of
Baghwan Ajitnathji idol there is also a marble door with
two pillars. The two pillars are decorated with
artistic Jaina images.
In
the art gallery there are 166 marble an idol of Bhwan
Risbhadev made of brown stone, and two idols of Bhagwan
Parsvanath with nine headed serpents.
An
beautiful image of Bhagwan Neminathji is also found in the art
gallery. Several other images made of metals are found in
digging in the nearby areas of Ladnun are placed in this
art gallery.
This
temple is built and repaired several times but its magnificence,
beauty, purity and calmness is preserved through
ages.
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