Shri Antriksh Parshwanath Tirth

Sacred Details

Sacred History

• Famous for a miraculous pratima that is slightly in the air hence titled as antiksh ( means sky).
• Raja Khardushan (a relative of Ravan) created the pratima from balu to worship while traveling as he vowed not to have food before prabhu darshan .
• After rituals this pratima was kept safely in nearby lake
• Raja Shripal, suffering from leprosy, was cured by bathing in the lake where the idol was kept.
• Unknown to reason he performed attham tap and rediscovered the pratima .
• later Acharya Abhaydev suri performed the Pratishtha in VK 1142.
• At that time man sitting on horse could pass from under the pratima as it was at that height in the air .
• In VK 1715, Shree Bhavvijay ji Maharaj performed a Jirnodhar and pratishta in which the height decresed ; currently, only a cloth can be passed .

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Shri Antariksh Parshwanath Mahajan Sansthan, Shirpur