Place · Jain temple group · India
Kumbhāriyā
The five marble Jain temples at Kumbharia in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, built in the 11th-12th centuries, two kilometres from the Ambaji Shakti Pitha. The very short walk between a major Shakta goddess shrine and a major Svetambara Jain tirtha is a textbook case of the subcontinental pattern in which heterogeneous religious traditions settle immediately adjacent to one another on the same hillside. The Jain temples — dedicated to Mahavira, Shantinath, Parshvanath, Sambhavanath and Neminath — were commissioned by the Solanki merchant minister Vimal Shah's successors. The marble carving echoes Dilwara at Mount Abu, built by the same craft networks.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Svetambara Jain tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.335, 72.830 (approximate)
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyAmbājī
Five marble Jain temples at Kumbhariya stand two kilometres from the Ambaji Shakti pitha — an eleventh-century Solanki-period Jain group and a major goddess-body site within a short walk of each other on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border. The proximity is not coincidental: both sit on the old route into the Aravallis, and the merchant communities who paid for the Jain marble were the same people who endowed the goddess.
Sources
Kumbhariya Jain Temples
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