For institutions
For temples, sthanaks and sanghs
List your derasar, sthanak, upashray or trust. It is free, it stays free, and you control what it says.
- Free
- to list, always
- 3
- How it works
- 2 minutes
- to send the details
- Yes
- you approve every word
What you get, and what it costs
It costs nothing. Not nothing to begin with, not nothing for the first year — nothing. There is no paid tier, no promoted placement, and no position in a list that can be bought. If that ever changes, existing listings stay free and we will say so on this page before anything else changes.
- A permanent listing with your address, your timings, and how to reach you.
- Your office bearers and their posts, exactly as far as you want them published.
- Your events — pravachan, chaturmas, pratishtha, swamivatsalya — in the community feed for your area when Awaz launches.
- Your own photographs, credited to you, instead of whatever a stranger uploaded to a map.
- The Jain details a general map has no field for: which tradition, whether there is a bhojanshala, whether the upashray is separate, when the derasar closes for dopahar.
Why we are asking you rather than looking it up
Because we have looked it up, and it runs out. The public sources give a name and a rough location and then stop: no timings, no tradition, and for most tirth trusts no telephone number at all. Twelve of the trust websites that circulate in Jain directories are dead or parked, and one that Wikipedia still cites as official now serves a gambling site. There is no amount of further searching that fixes this. The information exists in your office.
Editing, and what happens until the app
Self-service editing — a login for your institution, where a trustee changes the timings themselves — arrives with the app. It is not built. Until it is, a change is one message to us and we make it, and we would rather say that than show you a dashboard button that leads to a login nobody has.
How it works
Three steps, and one message
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Tell us about the institution
Its name, where it is, what it is — derasar, sthanak, upashray, hall, bhojanshala, dharamshala or pedhi — and the tradition it belongs to. Use the contribute form or write to us; either reaches the same place.
- 2
We check it and ask what may be published
A person reads every submission. If something is unclear we ask rather than guess — a wrong tradition on a listing is worse than a missing one. We also ask explicitly which contacts you are content to have public.
- 3
It goes live, and stays yours
The listing appears on the site in all three languages. Tell us whenever anything changes and we update it, usually the same week. Once a year we come back and ask.
The questions trustees ask
Answered plainly
These are the four we are asked most often, and the answers are the same whether you are a village upashray or a pedhi managing a mountain.
- Who can edit our listing?
- Today, only us — and only on your instruction or from a source we name on the page. Nothing a stranger submits reaches the site without a person reading it first. When the app arrives, the institution itself will hold the login and you will edit it directly.
- What happens to our data?
- It is published on this site so people can find you, and that is all. It is not sold, not licensed, not given to an advertiser and not used to build a mailing list. If you ask us to remove a listing we remove it, and we do not ask you to justify the request.
- Do we need the app?
- No. The listing is on the website, which anyone can read on any device with no account and no download. The app adds things for members; it is not a condition of being listed.
- Is there any charge, ever?
- No. Listing a temple, sthanak, upashray, hall, bhojanshala, dharamshala or sangh is free and stays free. There is no commission on anything, and nobody at Jain Waves earns anything from your listing.
The bodies your institution may already belong to
Most derasars, sthanaks and trusts already answer to one of these — an apex body, a trade organisation or a pedhi. Here is what each of them actually does, and how to reach it.
Jain International Trade Organisation
JITO
All four traditions. The body is pan-Jain and does not restrict by sect.
Shri Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Mahasabha
Digambar, by the nature of the body.
Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Tirth Kshetra Committee
Digambar. The register is a Digambar one — a Shwetambar tirth will not be in it, and where a directory files a Shwetambar kshetra under a Digambar trust, our own tirth pages say which body is which.
Sheth Anandji Kalyanji Pedhi
AK Pedhi
Shwetambar. The pedhi describes itself as the body representing all the Shwetambar Jain sanghs of India. Its tirths are of course open to every pilgrim — the scope described here is who the institution answers to, not who may climb the hill.
Seth Kalyanji Parmanandji Pedhi, Sirohi
Shwetambar.
Terapanth Professional Forum
TPF
Terapanth. The forum is constituted of professionals of the Terapanth Samaj, and Medhavi Samman is explicitly for Terapanthi students.
Shri All India Swetamber Sthanakwasi Jain Conference
Shwetambar Sthanakvasi.
Shree Akhil Bharatvarshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh
SABSJS
Sadhumargi, and sangh membership is part of it. For the higher-education scheme the applicant must be a member of Shri ABS Jain Sangh with at least one parent a member of the Sadhumargi Jain Sangh — being Sthanakvasi is not enough on its own.
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