The discovery of 30 inscriptions at the 450-year-old Abbana Bettu Basadi in Karnataka has provided new insights into Jain heritage. The inscriptions, mostly in Kannada script, date from the 16th to ...

Hassan: Shravanabelagola, one of Jainism's most revered pilgrimage sites, received a new attraction with a 12-foot idol of ...

Jain Tirthankara sculpture, stone pillar found in Hassan Several such sculptures, related to Jainism, have been found in the village a number of times. In 2015, two sculptures of young women ...

This year, 2025, Mahavir Jayanti falls on Thursday, April 10. As legend goes in the Mahavir Purana, Mahavir was born a Tirthankara for the good of the world and the attainment of Nirvana. As believed ...

A local heritage enthusiast, Nimai Mahato, elaborates on the sculptures to visitors. The collosal black statue of 9th ‘tirthankara’ Padamprabha standing in a Kayotsarga posture, Pakbirra Apart from ...

A massive crowd of devotees had descended on the venue to celebrate ‘Nirvana Laddu Parv’ of the first Jain Tirthankara Bhagwan Adinath. “They had made a wooden structure with wooden stairs ...