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What is a tirth kshetra?

A tirth is a crossing place — somewhere the passage from this world to liberation has been made, and so somewhere a pilgrim can come closer to making it. Jain tradition classifies them, and the classification tells you what kind of place you are going to.

Siddhakshetra
A place from which souls attained liberation. These are the great tirths — Shikharji, Shatrunjaya, Girnar — and the reason they are sacred is an event, not a building.
Atishaya kshetra
A place of recorded miracle or special power, usually grown up around a particular image.
Kala kshetra
Significant chiefly as art and architecture. Still sacred, but what draws most visitors is what the stone does.
Temple complex
A major group of temples without one of the classifications above.
Not a place you can visit
Revered, but not somewhere you can travel to. Ashtapad is the one entry of this kind here, and it is included so nobody goes looking for a route that does not exist.

Tradition

We never guess a tradition. Where no source states it, this says “Not recorded”. Where both traditions revere or manage a site, it says so and explains how.

A warning about one link you will find elsewhere

The domain that Wikipedia, Wikidata and most Jain directories still list as the official website of the Hastinapur Jambudweep complex has been hijacked. It now redirects, in a single hop, to an overseas gambling site. We checked it from our own machine on 16 August 2026. We do not link it here and we are not reprinting it — if you maintain a Jain directory, check the Jambudweep entry in your own listings, because it is almost certainly still there.

Verified 2026-08-16

Karnataka8

Gujarat7

Rajasthan7

Maharashtra6

Madhya Pradesh5

Uttar Pradesh4

Bihar3

Tamil Nadu2

Not a place you can visit1

Jharkhand1

Odisha1

Telangana1

Planning a yatra

Most tirths have a dharamshala and a bhojanshala run by the trust, and most do not publish rates or a booking page — a telephone call is still how it is done. Where we have a trust website we link it; where we do not, we say so rather than send you to a directory we cannot vouch for.

Festivals

Festival dates follow the Jain calendar and move every year against the Gregorian one. We name the festivals and do not print dates — check with the trust before you travel.

How we grade sources

Every entry says where its facts came from. Community directories are often the only place a dharamshala or a landline is written down, so we keep them — and label them.

Listed elsewhere as tirths — and not here

If you have seen one of these on a Jain tirth list, we looked at it and left it out. Finding out at the gate is worse than reading it here.

Chandanpuri, Malegaon taluka, Nashik
Not a Jain site. Shri Kshetra Chandanpuri is a Khandoba temple — the deities are Khandoba, Mhalsa and Banai, and its annual yatra draws Malhar devotees. It appears on some Jain tirth lists, which is why we name it here rather than leave you to discover it on arrival.
Lokmat Times — Malhar devotees at Shri Kshetra ChandanpuriNashik district village records, Malegaon taluka
Pandav Leni / Trirashmi Caves, Nashik
Contested, and we will not list it as a Jain tirth on the strength of one side. The Archaeological Survey of India protects the complex as a Buddhist site: 24 caves of the Hinayana tradition. Several sources also report Tirthankara sculptures and later Jain occupation, and Wikipedia describes it as both Buddhist and Jain. Worth visiting, genuinely interesting — but go knowing what it is.
Archaeological Survey of India — Trirashmi Buddhist cavesWikipedia — Nasik Caves
Stavanidhi
We could not verify it. No source we could reach states its tradition or confirms its standing as a tirth kshetra, and prior research flagged it as one of the entries community directories get wrong. Rather than publish a guess, it is left out. If you know the trust, we would like to hear from you.

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