Nemgiri is a place in

Jintur Jintur city is a municipal council in the Parbhani district of Maharashtra, India. Geography Jintur is located at . It has an average elevation of 455 metres (1492 feet). Demographics As population of 2011 India census, Jintur has po ...

taluka of

Parbhani district Parbhani district () is one of the eight districts in the Marathawada region of Maharashtra state of India. Parbhani city is the headquarters of this district. Parbhani district is well known for the Marathwada rebellion and religious tour ...

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state of

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. Nemgiri is particularly known for its Jain temple which is protected by state government and

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History

Nemgiri is named after twenty-second Jain ''

tirthankara In Jainism, a ''Tirthankara'' (; ) is a saviour and supreme preacher of the ''Dharma (Jainism), dharma'' (righteous path). The word ''tirthankara'' signifies the founder of a ''Tirtha (Jainism), tirtha'', a fordable passage across ''Saṃsā ...

Neminatha Neminātha (Devanagari: नेमिनाथ) (Sanskrit: नेमिनाथः), also known as Nemi and Ariṣṭanemi (Devanagari: अरिष्टनेमि), is the twenty-second tirthankara of Jainism in the present age (). Nemina ...

. In

Marathi language Marathi (; , 𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲, , ) is a Classical languages of India, classical Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in Goa, and parts of Guj ...

or originally in

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

, ''Nemi'' is for ''Neminatha'' while ''giri'' means ''mountain''. There is no specific historical knowledge about this particular fort with the name Nemgiri, which

Rashtrakuta The Rashtrakuta Empire was a royal Indian polity ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and 10th centuries. The earliest known Rashtrakuta inscription is a 7th-century copper plate grant detailing their rule from Manapu ...

kings have ruled in

. However, there is some historical knowledge available about the caves. In ancient times this area was known as Jainpur, in 9th century during the time of Emperor

Amoghavarsha Amoghavarsha I (also known as Amoghavarsha Nrupatunga I) (r. 814 – 878 CE) is considered by many historians to be the greatest emperor of the Rashtrakuta dynasty. His reign of 64 years is one of the longest precisely dated monarchical reign ...

of Rashtrakut Family. Later, in the middle period of

Indian History Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; by 4500 ...

, this was destroyed by invaders, and its name changed to ''Jintur'', which is its current name. At that time, 300 Jain families and 14 Jain Temples were present. Out of them, only two temples currently remain.

Temple

The holy site is situated in sub hills of Sahyadri Mountains, in the area of

away from Jintur. Two hills, named Nemgiri and Chandragiri, are known for their ancient, artistic, and miraculous Jain Cave Temples and Chaityalayas. There are two temples and seven caves on the two hills. The hills are named as Nemgiri and chandragiri respectively. On Nemgiri hill there are seven caves. The caves have tiny entrances but the idols inside are quiet large. Nemgiri caves are unique examples of engineering of that era.

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