Category:Pathari Jain temple

**Jain temples group, Badoh**
	A group of 25 Jain temples (9th to 12th century)
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Location	Vidisha district, Bhopal division, Madhya Pradesh, India
	23° 55′ 24.6″ N, 78° 13′ 12.4″ E
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The Jain group of temples consists of twenty five Jain temples in Badoh. They are located about 600 meters north-northwest of the Gadarmal Yogini temples site, closer to the Gyannath hill.

The Jain temple group shrines date from c. 9th to 12th-century CE. They were restored in 1920s. Like Gadarmal and a few other sites, the restoration effort made errors in placing the Jain artwork and they used available scattered temple parts per their best guess. Thus, the temples look odd and haphazard.

The shrines have Jain Tirthankara statues, with iconography that is typical of the Digambara tradition. Almost all are defaced and show signs of deliberate mutilation. A few smaller Jain statues that were excavated nearby are in better shape and they are also stored inside at this site. The temple architecture is Nagara-style of 9th and later centuries. Some shrines have dome-like covers, these are from the 20th-century restoration effort to cover the torn ceilings and prevent further damage to the inside.

While some Hindu deities such as Ganesha, Ganga and Yamuna are seen in numerous Jain sites, this Jain temple group of Badoh is quite odd. It has many Hindu – such as Narasimha, Surya, Nataraja and Kartikeya – artwork panels in lower sections of various Jain shrines (these were not restored sections). This presence of Hindu artwork in this historic Jain temples complex may be because (a) the Jains converted a Hindu site for their worship without erasing signs of Hindu deities, or (b) it was a mixed Jain-Hindu site when it was originally built, or (c) that the Hindus abandoned their shrines in this complex, centuries later the Jains adopted this entire site and added Jaina idols for their worship rituals. Evidence is not yet available to ascertain what actually happened.

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