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Shikara Adinath temple, Palitana, Gujarat, India. Shri Adishwara or Rishaba Deva Temple in Palitana, Gujarat, India. The Jains sacred site of Shatrunjaya contains hundreds of Palitana temples built mostly between the 11th Century and 16th Century CE. The Shatrunjaya Hills were sanctified when Rishabha, the first tirthankara (omniscient Teaching God) of Jainism, gave his first sermon in the temple on the hill top. The ancient history of the hills is also traced to Pundarika Swami, a chief Ganadhara and gran