All temples of Girnar are sacred to pilgrims of both Hindu and Jain faith. In fact, Girnar has been a sacred place well before the Dholavira and Mohen-jo- daro period and its origin can be traced back to the Vedas and other holy scriptures of various Indus Valley based religions.
The Girnar mountain in the neighbourhood of Junagadh in Saurashtra is referred to as Ujjayantagiri or Raivatagiri in the Scriptures.
First Tonk Girnarji : After climb of about 2 miles, one could see a Shwetambar jain temple and a cave called Rajulmati cave. It is stated that Rajulmati has done penanace and tap at this place. there is small temple where idol of Bhagwan Bahubali (120 cms) in standing posture is installed. Besdies there are footprints of kundkund acharaya. In the temple, the idol of bhagwan Neminath (Vikram 1924) is on the main vedi. The idols of Parsvanath and neminath are also there. there is stream called gomukhi ganga and nearby the footprints of 24 tirthanakaras are available. This is called first tonk. The way to sahatraman is near gomukhi ganga but one should visit that place only after complettion of visit of 5 tonks. After a few steps, one could see a marvellous temple of bhagwan Neminath and 9 beautiful Shwetambarr temples built by Shri vastupal-tejpal; Samarat kumarpal; Minister sajjan and others.
Second tonk : After 900 steps one could see the footprints of muni anirudhhkumat and temple of Devi Ambika (This temple is under hindu control)
Third tonk : Here the footprints of Muni Sambukkumar are installed. Muni has attained nirvana from this place.
Fourth tonk : The way to this tonk is not proper and one has to climb rocks and stones to reach here. the footprints of pradhyman kumar-son of lord krishna are installed here. He attained nirvana from this place.
Fifth tonk : The footprints of Bhagwan Neminath are installed here. hindu dispute it to be footprints of dattatray.
while returning one may go to Sesavan from first tonk. here one could see the footprints under a canopy in diksha van.
horizontal and vertical look of girnar shows us face of a man...!!!!
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