Mahavira in the chief temple, with shrines to Parshvanatha, Shantinatha, Neminatha and SambhavanathaChaulukyaMaru-Gurjara
Sacred since
1062 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1062-1231 (Chaulukya)
Chaulukya
History & significance
Five marble Jain temples in Banaskantha district built under the Chaulukya kings Bhima I, Karna and Jayasimha Siddharaja. Kumbharia was a major Jain centre said once to have held hundreds of shrines, and the surviving ceilings are among the finest Chaulukyan carving in Gujarat.