ShatrunjayaTirtha
is situated near the Shartunjaya dam on way toTalaja from Palitana.This
is a vast Jina temple in which there is the lofty, vast, black and charming
image of Shri Shatrunjaya Parshvanatha Bhagavan, the foremost of Jinas.
This idol and the other idols all-round were installed on the tenth day
of the bright half of the month of Vaishakh in V.S. 2030. Under the inspiration
and sermonizing of the most revered Achary DevaShri Vijayanandanasurishvaraji
this tirtha was raised at a distance of six miles from
Palitana and about Vz furlong from the Shatunjaya river. Shah Khumchand
Ratanchand Jorajiand Shah Sornchand Chunibhai had the good fortune to get
orders of the Sangha and to construct this temple and instal the image there.
We also have an inn, a canteen and Upashraya at the place. Devoted pilgrims
who undertake nineteen pilgrimages of Shri Shatrunjaya Giriraja complex,
do not fail to pay a revered visit to Shri Dada going up the bridge near
Rohitashala after paying worshipful respects to the PADUKAS of the feet
of Shri Adishvar Bhagavan on the banks of the river aftertaking a dip in
the Shatrunjaya river. In this Rohitashala, it was at the sacred hands of
Acharya Shri Vijayanemisurishvaraji Maharaj, a master of all Scriptures,
that the temple of Bhagavan Shri Adishvara, the inn etc. were constructed.
All these temples, inn etc. were feared to be submerged in waters due to
construction of the Shatrunjaya dam. This novel Tirtha was therefore constructed
and all the idols of the Jina temple complex were religiously installed
in this new Jaina temple. This dam-tirtha continues to develop and flourish
under the able administration of the business-house of Sheth Shri Jinadasa
Dharmadasa. |
