Photo Gallery

The view of the mammoth Water tank from the Indragiri hill. `Shravana` means `Jain monk` and `belagola` means `white pond`.

A miniature idol, made of eight metals, of Bhagavan Gommateshvara Bahubali.

A view of the steps, about 500 of them, carved out of the rocks, which takes atop of the Indragiri hill, where the monolith statue is located.

Pilgrims showing reverence, by touching the foot marks of a Jain ascetic on the way to the top of Indragiri Hill.

A Jain layman offering prayers at the feet of the idol of Bhagavan Bahubali.

Pilgrims climbing  to the top of the Indragiri hill.

Jain laymen getting ready for the daily ritual adoration of Bhagavan Gommateshvara Bahubali.

Digambara Jain nuns in observing the ritual lustration of the magnificient icon of Bhagavan Gommateshvara Bahulbali.

Relief cut figures of Jain Tirthankaras in meditation, found on the way to the Indragiri hill top.

A relatively smaller icon of Lord Gommateshvara Bahubali, built on the Candragiri hill.

One of the ancient temples located on the Chandragiri hill.

A view of the mammoth monolith statue of Lord Gomatheswara. It is 57 feet high, was erected by Chavundaraya a general of King Gangarajya. Period is between 978-993 A.D.

You see reliefs of Kings, queens in the Chavundara Basti.

Image of Jain Tirthankara seated in the lotus position. Images of Tirthankaras are always found in meditation, either seated or standing.

Image of Tirthankara Parshvanatha, the 23rd Jina, standing in meditation in the khadgasana - sword position.

Reliefs in the Cavundaraya Basti, depicting the story of how Cavundaraya, at the behest of his pious mother, set about erecting the  monolith statue of Lord Bahubali on the Indragiri Hill.

Auspicious feet of the Jain preceptor, Shruta Kevali Acarya Bhadrabahu.