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Kundalpur, Nalanda district, Bihar · 25.1480°, 85.4446°
A Digambara Jain complex at Kundalpur near Nalanda, built in 2003 in yellow Jaisalmer stone with a shikhara about 51 feet high beside an older temple on the same ground, and run by the Bhagwan Mahavira Janmabhoomi Kundalpur Digambar Jain Samiti. Digambaras hold Kundalpur, an ancient Licchavi capital, to be Mahavira's birthplace, while other Jain traditions point instead to Basukund near Vaishali.
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.
Four of Mahavira's eleven ganadharas, Gautama Swami among them, are believed to have been born here.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Modern
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