Tag: Jain Caves

• Siddhachal Jain Temple Caves (Video)

  

  In this episode we bring to you the massive Monoliths of the SIDDHACHAL JAIN TEMPLE CAVES from Gwalior 🙂 For more info and photographs of this place please see this post. Happy Exploring! 🙂

  adityapathak

  June 6, 2015

  Explorations, Gwalior, Heritage, History, Travel, Videos, Vlog

  aditya pathak, ancient, architecture, arunima pathak, Cave, Caves, Digambar, Gwalior, Jain, Jain Caves, Jain Temple, medieval, Monolith, sandstone, Siddhachal

• Siddhachal Jain Temple Caves – Monoliths and Carvings at Gwalior

  On the way up to the Gwalior fort the road climbs through a wooded gorge called the Urwahi valley. Facing it, and carved into the soaring sandstone cliff, are the imposing ‘Jain‘ monoliths that depict the Teerthankars. The Sanskrit/Hindi word “Teerth” means a destination situated at the bank of a river and “Teerthankar” would mean…

  adityapathak

  March 7, 2015

  Artwork, Blog, Explorations, Heritage, History, Meditation, Photographs

  ancient, art, Bamiyan, Carving, Gwalior, heritage, history, Idol, Jain, Jain Caves, Mahavira, Monolith, Monolithic, Monolithic Caves, Sculptor, sculpture, spiritual, Stone, teerthankar, tomar