JAIN PILGRIMAGE AT SHETRUNJAY HILL AT PALITANA. GUJARAT THE CIRCUM-AMBULATION.

SHETRUNJAY JAIN TEMPLES PILGRIMAGE. SHETRUNJAY HILL PALITANA –GUJARAT HEIGHT 7000 FT. STEPS. 3750. ABODE OF INNUMERABLE JAIN TEMPLES. CIRCUMAMBULATION 16 KM. (CHH GAOO YATRA). GOOD TIME APRIL. ON THE TOP OF THE HILL THERE IS TEMPLE WHICH HOUSES idols of SIX SONS OF MOTHER DEVKI KILLED BY JARASNGH. OUT OF THE 24 TIRTHANKARAS, RISHABHDEV THE FIRST HOLY KING RISHABHDEV. FATHER. NABHIRAJ. MOTHER.MARUDEVI. BIRTH PLACE- VANITA (AYODHYA) BEFORE DELIVERY TIME THE MOTHER HAS A DREAM OF RISHABH AN OX. SO HE WAS NAMED RISHABHDEV. HE WAS TALL, STRONG GOLDEN COLOURED VERY HANDSOME PRINCE. TAUGHT 72 ARTS TO MALE FOLLOWERS AND 64 ARTS TO FEMALE FOLLOWERS. PILGRIMS UNDERTAKE THE CIRCUMAMBULATION (PARIKRAMA) IN APRIL 16 KM ROUND, THEN REACH SIDDH-VAD RESTING PLACE. DURING THE JOURNNEY THEY COME ACROSS JALMANDIR SAMALVANTU HANUMAN-DHARA RAMPAL, ADINATH, BHUKHADDAS KUND. ON TOP OF THE HILL GIRIRAJ POINT THEY VISIT THE HOLY TEMPLE OF MA DEVKI SONS , THEN TO ULKA-JAL AJITNATH, SHANTINATH TEMPLES, CHANDAN-TALAVADI BHADVA DUNGAR AND FINALLY SIDDH-VAD. THE AMDAVAD BASED ANANDJI KALYANJI CHARITY HOUSE MAKES ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS PILGRIMAGE WITH ALL OTHER FACILITIES. (FOUNDED BY : KASTURBHAI LALBHAI ARVIND MILLS GROUP). (OTHER JAIN PILGRIMAGE PLACES ARE AT RANAKPUR, TARANGA, PANSAR, UDAYGIRI CAVES)