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DigambarKala kshetraPartly sourced

Moodbidri

Also known as: Mudabidri · Moodabidri · Jain Kashi

Called the Jain Kashi of the south for the density of its basadis. The Saavira Kambada Basadi — the thousand-pillar temple, fifteenth century — is the best known, built in a tiered timber-and-stone idiom that belongs to coastal Karnataka and nowhere else. Moodbidri also holds important palm-leaf manuscript collections.

Digambar
Tradition
Kala kshetra
Kind of kshetra
Moodbidri
Nearest town
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Staying there
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Why this place

Called the Jain Kashi of the south for the density of its basadis. The Saavira Kambada Basadi — the thousand-pillar temple, fifteenth century — is the best known, built in a tiered timber-and-stone idiom that belongs to coastal Karnataka and nowhere else. Moodbidri also holds important palm-leaf manuscript collections.

Associated with

  • Chandraprabha

Getting there

By rail
Mangaluru.
By air
Mangaluru.

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