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The Chitharal Jain Temple and Bhagavati Temple are located near Chitharal village in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.They consist of stone beds with inscriptions, and two monuments – one rock cut Jain temple with outer wall reliefs and one Hindu goddess temple next to it that is a combination of rock-cut and stone that was added during the reign of Vikramaditya Varaguna Pandya.
Chitharal Jain Monuments: The Chitharal Jain Monuments are the ruins of a Jain training center from the 9th century CE, on a small hill. It has the famous Lord Shiva Temple and the hillock has a cave containing rock-cut sculptures of Thirthankaras and attendant deities carved inside and outside dating back to the 9th century.
The second monument is a Bhagavati temple created by cutting into the rock and installing a southern style Jain crowning spire above the rock. A mandapa and masonry ceiling was added in 13th to 14th century. The temple walls and flat square sections of some pillar have Tamil inscriptions, few in Vatteluthu (rounded) script.
Images of Mahavira, Devi and Parsvanatha in Chitharal Temple, Kanyakumari Interior of Jain temple, Wayanad. Ilamko Atikal, who is traditionally credited as the author of the Tamil epic Chilappatikaram, was probably a resident of a Jain vihara known as "Kunavayir kottam".
Jainism has an extensive history in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, although practiced by a minority of Tamils in contemporary times.According to the 2011 India Census, Jains represent 0.12% of the total population of Tamil Nadu, [1] and are of the Digambara sect. Tamil Jains are primarily concentrated in northern Tamil Nadu, in the districts of Madurai, Viluppuram, Kanchipuram, Vellore ...
Chitharal Jain Monuments (Bhagavati Temple and Jaina-bas Relief) Chithral: Kanyakumari Chitharal Jain Monuments (Bhagavati Temple and Jaina-bas Relief) More images: N-TN-T3 Parthasarathi and Krishna Temples: Parthivapuram: Kanyakumari Parthasarathi and Krishna Temples: N-TN-T4 Vivekananda Rock Memorial: Kanyakumari: Kanyakumari
Jain bas-relief on the north side outer wall of the cave temple. It is famous for the Rock-cut temple. Hill rock at Chitharal has a cave containing Rock-cut sculptures of Thirthankaras and attendant deities carved inside and outside dating back to 9th Century A.D by King Mahendra Varman I. [102]
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