JAIN PILGRIMAGE TOUR KARNATAKA

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, in Bangalore, India, is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture and was the summer residence of the Mysorean ruler Tipu Sultan. Hyder Ali commenced its construction within the walls of the Bangalore Fort, and it was completed during the reign of Tipu Sultan in 1791. After Tipu Sultan's death in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the British Administration used the palace for its secretariat before moving to Attara Kacheri in 1868. Today the Archaeological Survey of India maintains the palace, which is located at the center of Old Bangalore near the Kalasipalyam bus stand, as a tourist spot.

The Bull Temple in Bangalore, also known as Nandi Temple, is famous for its large statue of the sacred bull, Nandi. In fact, with a height of around 4.6 metres and a length of about 6.1 metres, the idol of Nandi in this temple is said to be one of the biggest in the world. This unique feature attracts many devotees and tourists to the place.

?c?rya Bhadrab?hu (c. 367 - c. 298 BCE) was, according to the Digambara sect of Jainism, the last Shruta Kevalin (all knowing by hearsay, that is indirectly) in Jainism but ?v?t?mbara, believes the last Shruta Kevalin was Acharya Sthulabhadra, but was forbade by Bhadrabahu from disclosing it. He was the last acharya of the undivided Jain sangha. He was the spiritual teacher of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of Maurya Empire.

Manasthambha, a huge granite pillar at Hiriangadi. The manasthambha pillar was installed around the middle of the 15th century by Pandya, the grandson of Bhairava I who had established the control of the Kalasa house over Karkala region for the first time. Measuring 16.5 metre or 54 feet in height, this manasthambha in front of the Neminatha Mandir is one of the protected monuments by the ASI.

Guru Basadi was formerly called Parshwanatha Basadi; but later, owing to bad times and the declining of Jains in number, this Basadi was covered by the growth of trees and bamboos. About the 8th century a Digambara monk coming here from Shravanabelagola chanced to pass by this spot where this Basadi exists, when he saw a rare scene of a Cow and a Tiger drinking water from the same basin and a calf and a cub suckling the Tiger and the Cow respectively, forgetting their natal enmity. Smelling something rare and inexplicable the monk walked to the spot, removed the bushy growth and saw a beautiful and large statue of Bhagawan Sri Parshwanatha Swami cut in stone. The statue happened to be a thousand years old. The statue was reinstalled at the same spot according to the rituals called Panchakalyana in 714 A.D. It was then named Guru Basadi after the discoverer.

Saavira Kambada Temple (S?vira Kambada Basadi) or Tribhuvana Tilaka C???ma?i), is a basadi or Jain temple noted for its 1000 pillars in Moodabidri, Karnataka, India. The temple is also known as "Chandranatha Temple" since it honors the tirthankara Chandraprabha, whose eight-foot idol is worshipped in the shrine. The town of Moodabidri is noted for its eighteen Jain temples but Saavira Kambada Temple is considered the finest among them.