Palitana Tourism, Gujarat India
(Palitana is also known as Padliptpur)
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Palitana Fast Facts
- State: Gujarat
- District: Bhavnagar
- Famous for/as: Temples
- Altitude: 66 m
- Language: Gujarati, Hindi
- Best Season: Oct - Mar
- Weather: Summer 22-40°C, Winter 12-33°C
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- Pincode: 364270
- STDCode: 02848
Palitana Info
Manager, Hotel Sumeru (TCGL),
Station Road, Palitana,
Tel: 252327.
The Munim,
Anandji-Kalyanji Pedhi,
Palitana,
Tel: 252147
Palitana, India Overview
The Palitana temples of Jainism are located on Mount Shatrunjaya, by the city of Palitana, in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India. The city of the same name, known previously as Padliptapur, has been nicknamed "City of Temples". Along with Sammet Shikhar, earlier in Bihar state, now of Jharkhand, the two sites are considered the holiest of all pilgrimage places by the Jain community. As the temple-city was built to be an abode for the divine, no one is allowed to stay overnight, including the priests. Every Jain believes that a visit to this group of temples is essential once in a life time to achieve nirvana or salvation.
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Palitana, India History
As a princely state, founded in 1194 (one of the major states in Saurashtra, where there were many smaller states, Palitana covered 777 km² and had 58,000 inhabitants (in 1921) in 91 villages, generating a 744,416 Rs revenue.
In 1656, Shah Jahan's son Murad Baksh (the then Governor of Gujarat) granted the village of Palitana to the prominent Jain merchant Shantidas Jhaveri in 1656. The management of the temples was assigned to the Anandji Kalyanji Trust in 1730.
Palitana used to be a native state of India in the Kathiawar Agency of the Bombay presidency. Area, 289 sq. m.; pop. (2011), 150,000, showing a decrease of 15% in the decade. The chief was a Gohil Rajput, with the title of Thakur Sahib. Gross revenue, £42,000; tribute jointly to the Gaekwar of Baroda and the Nawab of Junagadh, £700. The capital of the state is Palitana; pop. 12,800. It was ruled by a Thakore sahib (also spelled Thakor Saheb), enjoying a 9-guns salute, of the Hindu Gohil dynasty, which received a privy purse of 180,000 Rupees at the state's accession to independent India on 15 February 1948.