Palitana (Shatrunjaya hill) has been a central Jain pilgrimage site since medieval times, including the Mughal period and after.

• Mughal era: In 1656, the Mughal governor granted Palitana villages to the prominent Jain merchant Shantidas Jhaveri, which helped the temple town prosper and the buildings multiply. This period also saw continued royal-friendly conditions that allowed pilgrimage and temple activity to flourish under Svetambara leadership. After this, taxes were exempted and Jain communities grew in Palitana. (This is the commonly cited historical pattern for Palitana during the Mughal era.)

• Post-Mughal administration: In 1730, the management of the Shatrunjaya temples came under Anandji Kalyanji Trust, a long-standing Svetambara Jain trust that oversees many Palitana temples and related sites. Since then, the trust has continued to maintain and develop the hill’s temples and the surrounding dharmashalas. This arrangement helped stabilize temple affairs and pilgrimage activities for centuries thereafter.

• Religious practice and daily life (posterity of Mughal-era patterns): Pilgrims typically climb the hill in groups, observe the vow of silence in the temples, and follow careful, contemplative puja routines. The temples at Shatrunjaya are grouped into tunks (enclosures); the main practices include reverent puja, chaturmas-era discipline, covered-light offerings, and avoiding harm to small beings during the ascent. Fasting and long pilgrimages (including the longer routes during Phalguna) are traditional parts of the Palitana pilgrimage experience.

• Traditions and identity: Palitana’s hill temples are primarily associated with the Svetambara Murtipujaka tradition, and the Anandji Kalyanji Trust has played a central role in their care and expansion. Digambar activity in Palitana is present in the broader Jain landscape but the hill’s most visible and historic temple complex is Svetambara-led.

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