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Khajuraho Jain group
The eastern group of three Jain temples at Khajuraho — Parsvanatha (c.950, the oldest and largest Jain temple at Khajuraho), Adinatha (c.1027) and Shantinatha (added c.1027 but reconstructed in the 19th century) — built under the same Chandela royal patronage (Yashovarman and Dhanga) that produced the Western Group Hindu temples. The simultaneous Hindu and Jain patronage, with the two sects' temples standing within 300 metres of each other, documents the Chandela court's accommodation of multiple religious communities in a single urban-temple grid. The Parsvanatha carving is widely considered the finest Jain stone sculpture of the medieval period. The three Jain shrines are part of the UNESCO 1986 Khajuraho inscription.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Patron dynasty
- Chandela
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.850, 79.940
Connections (1)
- Shared site withKhajuraho
The eastern group at Khajurāho is Jain — Pārshvanātha, Ādinātha, Shāntinātha — built in the same decades and the same style as the Hindu temples a kilometre west, under the same Chandela patronage. Only the images inside distinguish them, which is the point worth noticing about the site. Chandela inscriptions record the same merchant families endowing both groups, so the patronage was not divided by religion either.
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Sources
History of India — Wikipedia
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