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Cities in India

Bhavnagar And Palitana

Population : 437,000
Main Languages  : Gujarati.
Telephone area code : 0276
Best time to visit  : October to March

Founded as a port in 1743, Bhavnagar is still an important trading post for the cotton goods manufactured in Gujarat. It is a sprawling city with distinctly separate old and new sections. It has not many interesting places to visit and travellers stay here overnight to visit Palitana – 51 kms from Bhavnagar and famous for Jain temples.
Palitana
The town of Palitana is little more than a gateway to Shatrunjaya, the Place of Victory. The 600m ascent from the base of the hill to the summit is a walk of some two kms, up more than 3000 steps. Over a period of 900 years, 863 temples have been built here.

Almost all temples are Jain and this hill, is one of Jainism’s holiest pilgrimage. The temples are grouped into nine enclosures or tunks – each with a central major temple and many minor ones clustered around. Some of the temples were built in 11th century but were destroyed by Muslims in the 14th and 15th century, so the current temples date from 16th century onwards.

The most notable of the temples is dedicated to Shri Adishwara, the first Jain Tirthankar. Built in 1618 by a wealthy Jain merchant, the Chaumukh or the four faced shrine, has images of Adinath facing out in the four cardinal directions. Other important temples are those to Kumar Pal, Sampriti Raj and Vimal Shah.

HOW TO REACH
Air       : Daily flight from Mumbai.

By Train    : Daily trains from Delhi.

By Road    : 299 kms from Ahmedabad. 		     
 
Suggested Itineraries
Rajasthan - Gujarat Tour
Delhi - Agra - Jaipur - Bundi - Kota - Chittor - Udaipur - Ranakpur - Mt. Abu - Ahmedabad - Bhavnagar - Palitana - Diu - Sasangir - Junagarh - Wankaner - Bhuj - Mumbai
 
The Lion Kingdom
Mumbai- Bhavnagar- Sasangir- Wankaner- Ahmedabad- Udaipur- Jaipur- Ranthambore- Bharatpur- Agra- Delhi
 
The Wild Saurashtra
Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Little Rann of Kutch-Gondal-Sasangir-Ahmedpur Mandvi-Diu-Bhavnagar-Mumbai.
 
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