Overview
A hill tirtha in northern Gujarat associated with the Chaulukya king Kumarapala and his teacher Acharya Hemachandra, and notable for a settled arrangement in which both sects maintain separate walled compounds on the same hill. Sect: Shared, in physically separate compounds: fourteen Shvetambara temples and five Digambara temples.
History
The main temple was built 1121 to 1161 CE under Kumarapala, on Hemachandra's advice.
Spiritual Significance
Taranga is a useful counter-example to the contested sites elsewhere in this group: two sects, one hill, separate compounds and no recorded dispute. The main Ajitnath temple is among the finest surviving Solanki-period Jain buildings.
Pilgrimage Information
Getting there and getting in. A hilltop site reached by ascent. No step count or palanquin information was found. Jain temples of this rank commonly prohibit leather articles, restrict photography, and expect bathing before worship. Where this page does not state a restriction, it is because no source documented one for this particular site, not because none applies. Confirm on arrival.
Preservation
Protection status. Not established in the sources consulted.
Sources
- Taranga Jain temple other
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