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पारसनाथ जी मंदिर KASHIWALA
Deep in the forests of Kuru-Jaangal, by the river Khoh, stands Parasnath Durg — the ancient Ahichhatra tirth at Kashiwala, Nagina (Bijnor). Its darshan now travels with you: live aarti, panchang and sankalp, wherever you are.
मंदिर
The Shrine
Bhagwan Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, is remembered beneath the seven-hooded canopy of Dharanendra — the serpent who sheltered him through Kamath's storm. At Parasnath Durg, by Kashiwala village near Nagina in district Bijnor, that memory has a home: an ancient brick fortress at the Himalayan foothills, bounded by the river Khoh — a khet amid mountains, just as the Parsvacharit describes.
Its ruins still speak — brick ramparts of the 8th–10th century, seven ponds to the east, the remains of a Neminath–Ambika temple beyond the wall, and a 7th-century image of Bhagwan Parshvanath whose carved head now rests in the Lucknow State Museum. The mandir carries that lineage forward, and this app extends its threshold to every devotee, everywhere.
प्राचीन अहिच्छत्रा
The ancient Ahichhatra of Kuru-Jaangal
For centuries, yatris and scholars have sought Ahichhatra — the tirth where Bhagwan Parshvanath stood in nirvikalp dhyan while Dharanendra held back the storm. The texts describe it precisely: in Kuru-Jaangal desh, near Hastinapur, ringed by mountains, its durg walled in brick. Parasnath Durg at Kashiwala — between the Himalayan foothills and the river Khoh — answers every description.
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c. 7th century
A carved stone head of Bhagwan Parshvanath from the durg's ruins is recorded in the district gazetteer and taken to the Lucknow State Museum.
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8th–10th century
The brick ramparts of Parasnath Durg rise — the Ahichhatra Kalpa describes the tirth's boundary walls as brick, unlike any stone fort of the region.
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14th century
Acharya Jinaprabha Suri's Vividh Tirth Kalpa places the Ahichhatra tirth in Kuru-Jaangal — birthplace of the famed Rishi Kanha of Sapadlaksh.
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16th–17th century
Pandit Banarasi Das records his Ahichhatra–Hastinapur yatra from Agra in the Ardhakathanak, travelling via Aligarh and returning through Meerut.
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17th century
Saubhagya Vijay ji's Tirthmala describes Ahichhatra beside Hastinapur — forty kos east of Delhi, in Kuru-Jaangal desh.
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Early 18th century
Pilgrimage continues — yatris from Amroha still visit — until the tirth is ravaged in the wars between the Pathans and the Marathas.
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Today
The shrine of Chintamani Parshvanath rises again at Kashiwala — and its darshan now travels with you.
दर्शन · अवशेष
Relics & Darshan
The earth of Parasnath Durg still returns what it sheltered — images of Tirthankaras, yakshis and attendants, in stone and metal, centuries old.
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