The sacred geography of the Indic world — every site mapped, dated, storied, and cited.
Bikaner, Rajasthan · 28.0047°, 73.3007°
A three-storey Svetambara Jain temple in Bikaner built in red sandstone with yellow-stone carving, famous for its frescoes, leaf paintings and mirror work depicting the lives of the twenty-four Tirthankaras. It is a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Local tradition claims that forty thousand kilograms of ghee were used instead of water in mixing the mortar for the temple.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Oswal merchant patronage
Answers only from cited records
Opening the line…