SHRI DRONGIRI TIRTH

  • SHRI DRONGIRI TIRTH

Numerous ancient temples on the mount together with scattered relics throughout the area reveal that this shrine is of remote past, the extract extent of which is difficult to find.This is the sacred place of Gurudutt Muniji for the practice of his intense austerities. A legend is prevalent that when the younger brother of Sri Ram i.e. Laxman was seriously wounded and lied in Coma during a fierce battle between Sri Ram and the King of Lanka Sri Ravana, that jewel among devotees Sri Hanumanji had carried away from this mount the life giving herbs to save or revive the life of Laxman as necessary.Besides this temple on the mount, there are 31 other temples and a cave where it is said Muni Sri Guruduttji had practiced intense austerities. In this cave his Foot-prints are enshrined. There are two more temples also at the base of the mountain.Full of medicinal herb and loaded with pleasant fragrance this mount with so many Jain temples looks marvelously divine and wonderful.