Digambar Jain Temple

Kundalpur Lake

Rajgir

Shikharji

Shikharji, Giridih district, Jharkhand, India, is located on Parasnath, the highest mountain of the Parasnath Range. It is a tirtha believed to be the place where twenty of the twenty-four tirthankaras along with many other saints attained moksha.

The temple at Shikharji is a new construction with some parts dating to the eighteenth century. However, the idol itself is very old. Sanskrit inscriptions at the foot of the image date to 1678. At the base of Shikharji is a temple to Bhomiyaji (Taleti). On the walls of the Jain temple at the village of Madhuban, there is a mural painting depicting all the temples on Parasnath Hill. Temples along the track include: Ganadhara, Kunthunatha, Rishabhanan, Chandranan, Naminatha, Aranatha, Māllīnātha, Shreyanasanatha, Pushpadanta, Padmaprabha, Munisuvrata, Chandraprabha, Adinath, Anantanatha, Shitalanatha, Sambhavanatha, Vasupujya, Abhinandananatha, Ganadhara, Jal Mandir, Dharmanatha, Vardhaman, Varishen, Sumatinatha, Shantinatha, Mahavira,