Our trip to Sravanabelagola
Tuesday morning we got visitors out of Heidelberg. Ruediger, Ilse and Jule our friends and neighbours of Max-Reger Strasse visited us in Bangalore. Ruediger is on a business trip to Chennai and on the way there they stayed over at our place. On wednesday they went shhopping with netsi and werve fascinated by all the silk, pashmiri blancket and everything you can buy here. 
On Friday we went with Ilse, Ruediger and Jule to a famous Jain statue, we wanted to show them not only the shopping complexes of Bangalore but also a bit of the Indian
heritage and culture. Shravanabelagola is a city located in the Hassan district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is one of the most important Jain pilgrim centers. Shravanabelegola is 158 km from Bangalore.
Altough we left at 5:30 in the morning and arrived at 8 am at Shravanabelagola it was already very hot, so we had to struggle to reach the top. Older people actually were carried to the top of the mountain. We could have gotten carried as well, it was very cheap, but we were deterimend to go on our own and we made it
There are two hills Chandragiri and Vindyagiri. The last shruta-kevali Bhadrabah and his pupil Chandragupta (formerly the Maurya king) had meditated there. Chandragiri has memorials to numerous monks and shravakas who have meditated there, since 5th cent CE, including the last king of the Rashtrakuta dynasty of Manyakheta. Chandragiri also has a famous temple built by Chamundaraya, who was a disciple of Acharya Nemichandra Siddhanta-chakravarti.
The Vindhyagiri hill is home to a thousand year-old gigantic 17.38 meter high monolithic stone statue of the Bhagavan Gomateshwara Bahubali, considered to be the world's largest, built by Chamundaraya, a general of king Gangaraya. The base of the statue has the oldest evidence of written Marathi said to be from 981AD.
The inscription concerns the king Gangaraya who funded the effort, and his general Chamundaraya, who erected the statue for the king. Every 12 years, thousands of devotees congregate here to perform the Mahamastakabhisheka, a spectacular ceremony where the thousand-year-old statue is anointed with milk, curds, ghee, saffron and gold coins. The next Mahamastakabhisheka will be held in 2018 A.D.
Shravanabelagola is the seat of the ancient Bhattaraka Math, belonging to the Desiya Gana lineage of Mula Sangha of Digambar monstic tradition. The Bhattarakas are all named Charukirti.
The visit of Shravanabelagola was really an expereince. people throwing butter, water and other liquids over the staute, praying and singing at the same time. The drums were constant beating in the background and somebody commented the actions via speaker. The Pictures can only describe a part of the entire experience.
On Friday we went with Ilse, Ruediger and Jule to a famous Jain statue, we wanted to show them not only the shopping complexes of Bangalore but also a bit of the Indian
heritage and culture. Shravanabelagola is a city located in the Hassan district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is one of the most important Jain pilgrim centers. Shravanabelegola is 158 km from Bangalore.
Altough we left at 5:30 in the morning and arrived at 8 am at Shravanabelagola it was already very hot, so we had to struggle to reach the top. Older people actually were carried to the top of the mountain. We could have gotten carried as well, it was very cheap, but we were deterimend to go on our own and we made it
There are two hills Chandragiri and Vindyagiri. The last shruta-kevali Bhadrabah and his pupil Chandragupta (formerly the Maurya king) had meditated there. Chandragiri has memorials to numerous monks and shravakas who have meditated there, since 5th cent CE, including the last king of the Rashtrakuta dynasty of Manyakheta. Chandragiri also has a famous temple built by Chamundaraya, who was a disciple of Acharya Nemichandra Siddhanta-chakravarti.
The Vindhyagiri hill is home to a thousand year-old gigantic 17.38 meter high monolithic stone statue of the Bhagavan Gomateshwara Bahubali, considered to be the world's largest, built by Chamundaraya, a general of king Gangaraya. The base of the statue has the oldest evidence of written Marathi said to be from 981AD.
The inscription concerns the king Gangaraya who funded the effort, and his general Chamundaraya, who erected the statue for the king. Every 12 years, thousands of devotees congregate here to perform the Mahamastakabhisheka, a spectacular ceremony where the thousand-year-old statue is anointed with milk, curds, ghee, saffron and gold coins. The next Mahamastakabhisheka will be held in 2018 A.D.
Shravanabelagola is the seat of the ancient Bhattaraka Math, belonging to the Desiya Gana lineage of Mula Sangha of Digambar monstic tradition. The Bhattarakas are all named Charukirti.
The visit of Shravanabelagola was really an expereince. people throwing butter, water and other liquids over the staute, praying and singing at the same time. The drums were constant beating in the background and somebody commented the actions via speaker. The Pictures can only describe a part of the entire experience.
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