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📸 Collection of Vintage pictures of #Jain temples

1. Jain temple cluster in Khajuraho, #MadhyaPradesh in 1885. There are 31 Jain Temples here, but from architectural point of view Parsvanath, Adinath & Shantinath temples are relatively more important & noteworthy

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2. 11th century Dilwara #Jain Temple, Near Mount Abu, #Rajasthan, 1890.

3. Ruins of the great #Jain temple, Bhand Dewal at Arang, #Chhattisgarh

Photographer: Beglar, Joseph David, 1873, British Library

4. #Jain temple ruins at Pathari, #MadhyaPradesh taken by Henry Cousens in c.1892-94 & described in his 'Report of a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa, 1871-72; and in the Central Provinces, 1873-74'

5. Photograph of a single small ruined #Jain temple near the village of Anjaneri, Nasik District, #Maharashtra taken by Henry Cousens either in the 1880s or the 1890s. It is probably Jain temple no.7 & is constructed very plainly.

6. View from the south of the Adishvar Bhagawan Temple in the Vimalavasi Tuk showing the shikara and roof, Shatrunjaya #Jain Tirth, #Gujarat, a photo by Edmund David Lyon, 1868

7. Mahavir #Jain Temple atOsian, Jodhpur, #Rajasthan 1897

It was built during the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty by King Vatsaraja in 783 AD making it the oldest surviving Jain temple in western India.

8. #Jain temple at Chittanur, Singavaram, South Arcot District, #Tamilnadu, 1894

Photograph of the Jain temple at Mel Chittamur is from the 'Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Madras, 1894-95'.
The British Library Board

9. #Jain temple at Sonagiri, Dantia dt, #MadhyaPradesh. From 'Famous monuments of Central India', by Raja Deen Dayal (London, 1886). There are a total of 103 temples with 77 on hill ď 26 in village. The Samavasaran of Bhagwan Chandraprabhu came here 17 times.

10. Sheetalnath #Jain Temple, #Kolkatta, #WestBengal

Built by Rai Budree Das Bahadoor Mookim, a jeweller & art connoisseur to honour Sheetalnathji, the 10th Tirthankar. This temple inspires awe from one & all. Construction of the temple began in 1842 and it was completed by 1867

11. #Jain Temple, Gwalior Fort, #MadhyaPradesh a photo by Lala Deen Dayal, 1870's

12. Hutheesing #Jain Temple, #Ahmedabad, #Gujarat

13. Mungathala #Jain temple, #Rajasthan in 1897

This name occurs in number of epigraphs of 12th century as Mundasthala (मुण्डस्थल). It was a sacred Shvetambara Jaina tirth sacred to Lord Mahavira. In an inscription of 14th century it is called as Mahatirtha

14. Bavan dhvaja #Jain Temple, Sarotra, #Gujarat by Henry Cousens in 1885. The Main shrine stands in a courtyard, surrounded by a corridor of 52 small shrines. Unfortunately the temple was desecrated by the time Cousens visited, & none of the images from these shrines survive

15. A small ruined #Jain temple in the Fort at Hangal, #Karnataka taken by Henry Cousens in the 1880s. Hangal is a small town south of Hubli in modern Karnataka which was under Chalukya rule in the 12th century & subsequently under Hoysala rule in the next century.

16. Shatrunjay #Jain Tirth, Palitana #Gujarat. British Library digitised image from page 8 of "Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat" photographed by Colonel Biggs

17. Photograph of the entrance to a ruined #Jain temple at Eklingji, Rajsamand dt, #Rajasthan taken by O.S. Baudesson in 1882.

18. Engraving of a #Jain Temple in Kumbhalgarh, by Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857) and Patrick Young Waugh (1788-1829). Plate 15 from James Tod's: 'Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and western Rajpoot States of India' published in London in 1829.

19. 153 years old photo of Samprati Raja #Jain temple on Mount Girnar tirth at Junagad, #Gujarat taken by DH Sykes in 1869 AD

20. Teli Ka Mandir, a #Jain Temple at Gwalior Fort, #MadhyaPradesh, 1928