Kulpakji
Also known as: Kolanupaka · Kulpak · Manikyaswami
One of the oldest Jain shrines in southern India. The presiding image is Manikyaswami — Rishabhanatha — and the Mahavira image here is carved from a single piece of green jade, about 130 cm tall, which is what most pilgrims come to see.
- Shwetambar
- Tradition
- Atishaya kshetra
- Kind of kshetra
- Aler
- Nearest town
- Not listed
- Staying there
Why this place
One of the oldest Jain shrines in southern India. The presiding image is Manikyaswami — Rishabhanatha — and the Mahavira image here is carved from a single piece of green jade, about 130 cm tall, which is what most pilgrims come to see.
Associated with
- Rishabhanatha (Adinath)
- Mahavira
- Neminatha
Tradition
★ Checked specifically. It is Śvetāmbara — listed as Shree Kulpakji Shwetamber Jain tirth, and every source we could reach agrees. Directories that file it under Digambar are wrong.
Getting there
- By rail
- Aler is the nearest station; Hyderabad is the main railhead.
- By air
- Hyderabad.
- By road
- Reached by road from Hyderabad, commonly as a day trip.
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Community-sourced contacts
From jaintirthkshetra.com, a community directory. These are not published by the trusts themselves, and most are the personal mobiles of named office-bearers rather than office lines — so please confirm before you travel, and be considerate about when you call.
★ Worth noting: this Digambar-leaning directory itself files Kulpakji under a Shwetambar trust, independently corroborating the tradition stated above.
Directory record: Shri Kulpakji Tirth P.O.Kolanpak, Station : Aler, .District - Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. · Nalgonda, Karnataka · jaintirthkshetra.com · 2026-08-16
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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.
- Shree Kulpakji Shwetamber Jain tirth listingCommunity directory
- Wikipedia — KolanupakaWikipedia