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Chandangaon, Karauli, Rajasthan · 26.6955°, 76.9302°
The foremost Digambara Jain pilgrimage centre of Rajasthan, built in the seventeenth century by the merchant Amar Chand Bilala around an image of Mahavira said to be more than a thousand years old. Other Tirthankara images are also enshrined, and the temple draws millions of pilgrims a year.
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.
A Meena dairy farmer named Krapa Ram is said to have found his cow spilling her milk over a mound near Chandanpur; when the villagers dug there they uncovered the image of Mahavira around which the temple grew.
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coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Mughal era
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