Shantinatha, the sixteenth TirthankaraUndetermined—
Sacred since
800 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
8th-17th c.
Undetermined
History & significance
The principal shrine of the Deogarh Jain group, thirty-one temples holding some two thousand sculptures, the largest such assemblage anywhere. Badly damaged in earlier centuries, the site has been looked after by the Jain community since 1939.