Kundalpur

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Kundalpur (कुंडलपुर) is a town in Patera tahsil of Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is a historical pilgrimage site for Jains in India. Author (Laxman Burdak) visited it on 26.12.1991.

Location

Kundalpur is located 35 km from the city of Damoh. Nearby cities include Damoh (35 km), Sagar (113 km), Jabalpur (143 km). Nearest railway station is Damoh which is 38 km from Kundalpur bus stand. Nearest airport is Dumna Airport in Jabalpur (150 km).

Variants

Jat Gotras Namesake

Rishabhanatha Statue

Kundalpur has a large image of Rishabhanatha (also known as Bade Baba). The image is in a sitting (Padmasana) posture and is 15 feet in height.[2] This is also the place of salvation of Antim Kevali Shridhar Kevali.[3]

There are 63 temples of various types. A temple called Jal Mandir is situated in the middle of the pond Vardhaman Sagar.

Among all the temples the most famous is the Bade Baba temple with Bhagwan Adinath (affectionately termed "Bade Baba") as the principal deity. The photographs of the Bade Baba image have been widely used in many publications, calendars and posters.

Acharya Vidyasagar has been the main source of inspiration for the construction and development of the new main temple and some of the recent structures at Kundalpur. He is often referred to as Chhote Baba in relation to the Bade Baba image.[4]

Construction of a massive and spacious new Bade Baba temple was initiated in 1999 after consulting architectural and religious experts. The main image was transferred to the sanctum of the new structure on January 15, 2006. The new temple will be in the classical Nagar style with some elements of the modern Rajasthani architecture.

History

According to Alexander Cunningham, in 1884 there were 20 temples on the hill and 30 temples at the foot of the hill near the pond known as "Vardhamana Talao".[5] The temples are square blocks with dome roofs and pinnacles of different sizes.[6][7]

The original Bade Baba temple, estimated to date from the 6th century CE, was the oldest temple at Kundalpur. According to an inscription[8] of Vikram Samvat 1757, the temple was re-discovered by Bhattaraka Surendrakirti of Mulasangha-Balatkaragana-Sarasvati Gachchha and was rebuilt from ruins by his disciple, with assistance from Bundela ruler Chhatrasal.[9]

(74) Kundalpur Stone Inscription 1700 AD

(74) Kundalpur Stone Inscription 1700 AD
(In situ.)

Source - Hira Lal: Descriptive lists of inscriptions in the Central provinces and Berar,p.52

[p.52]: Kundalpur is 20 miles north-east of Damoh. It has a number of Jaina temples, in one of which, dedicated to Vardhamana, there is an inscription of 24 lines put up during the reign of Maharajadhiraja Sri Chhatra Sala (the well-known Bundela Chief of Panna). It is dated in Samvat 1757, Magha badi 15 Somavasare, corresponding to Monday the 31st December 1700 A.D. In the 4th line the name of Sri Vardhamana and in the 8th line Jina mārga and Jina dharma occur. On another small temple a date is given as Thursday, Paush Sudi 2 of Samvat 1501, but that date fell on a Friday1 and not on Thursday.

(Cunningham's Archaeological Reports, Volume XXI; pages 166-167.)

1. General Cunningham worked it out as Saturday.

Wiki editor Notes:

(111) Kundalpur Temple Inscriptions of 1700, 1445 AD

(In Situ)

Source - Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Nagpur, 1932,p.60-61

[p.60]: Kundalpur is 20 miles north-east of Damoh. It has a number of Jaina temples, in one of which, dedicated to Vardhamana, there is an inscription of 24 lines put up [p.61]: during the reign of Maharajadhiraja Sri Chhatra Sala (the well-known Bundela Chief of Panna). It records that a Jaina Brahmachari named Nemichandra repaired the temple at Mandaratila with the proceeds of his begging in Samvat 1757, Magha badi 15 Somavasare, corresponding to Monday the 31st December 1700 A.D. It shows that old name of Kundalpur was Mandara-tila (मन्दर-टीला) which literally means a hillock with a temple. On another small temple a date is given as Thursday, Paush Sudi 2 of Samvat 1501 (= 1445 AD), but that date fell on a Friday and not on Thursday.

(Cunningham's Archaeological Reports, Volume XXI; pages 166-167; and Hiralal's Damoh Dipaka, 2nd edition, page 77)

कुंडलपुर

कुंडलपुर (म.प्र.) (AS, p.194) दमोह से 22 मील कुंडलाकार पर्वत शिखर पर तथा नीचे 59 जैन मंदिर स्थित हैं. पर्वत के ऊपर एक मंदिर में महावीर की विशाल शैलकृत मूर्ति है. कहा जाता है कि इस मंदिर का जीर्णोद्धार महाराज छत्रसाल ने 17 वीं सदी में करवाया था. (दे. कुंडिन)[11]

कुंडलपुर : यह जैन तीर्थ स्थल है जो ब्यारमा नदी के किनारे पर दमोह से 32 किलोमीटर दूर पटेरा सड़क पर स्थित है. यहां 58 दिगंबर जैन मंदिर गोलाई में फैली पहाड़ी पर बने हुए हैं. एक मंदिर में महावीर स्वामी की 12 फीट ऊंची मूर्ति है. ऋषभ नाथ तथा पार्श्वनाथ की मूर्तियां बड़े भव्य रमणीय स्थान पर स्थापित हैं. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Nagpur, 1932,p.60-61
  2. ↑ Shri Digamber Jain Siddha Kshetra Kundalgiri, The Jaina Gazette, Vol. XLV, Number 9, September 1948, p. 94
  3. ↑ Jagannmohanlal Shastri, Anekanta, December 1967, page. 194.
  4. ↑ patrika.com, Damoh-news-kundalpur-temple
  5. ↑ Cunningham, Alexander (1885), Reports of a Tour in Bundelkhand and Rewa in 1883-84; and of a Tour in Rewa, Bundelkhand, Malwa, and Gwalior, in 1884-85, vol. 21, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government printing, pp. 166–7.
  6. ↑ Cunningham, Alexander (1885), Reports of a Tour in Bundelkhand and Rewa in 1883-84; and of a Tour in Rewa, Bundelkhand, Malwa, and Gwalior, in 1884-85, vol. 21, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government printing, pp. 166–7.
  7. ↑ Titze, Kurt; Bruhn, Klaus (1998), Jainism: A Pictorial Guide to the Religion of Non-Violence (2 ed.), Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 81-208-1534-3,p.125
  8. ↑ Y.K. Malaiya, "Kundalpur's Past Three Centuries," Arhat Vacan, Vol. 13, no. 3-4, 2001 pp. 5-13
  9. ↑ Thakurdas Bhagavandas Javeri, Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Directory, 1914
  10. ↑ Hira Lal: Descriptive lists of inscriptions in the Central provinces and Berar,p.52
  11. ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.194
  12. ↑ एल आर बुरडक, मध्य प्रदेश शासन वन विभाग, दमोह वन मंडल की कार्य-आयोजना (1993-94 से 2002-03), p.230
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