Taranga Hill Wildlife Sanctuary — Attraction in Gujarat

If you are searching for mountains, Small trails for Trekking, Old architecture and religion place than this is perfect one.

Day 1 Taranga HillHotels Map Taranga Hill - A combination of Nature and marvelous carving,architecture of beautiful jain temple surrounded by small hills. The temple is surrounded by total three peaked hill. You can climb all three hills and it will take around one hours per hill.

We started by early morning. Love the sunrise from the top of the hill and peaceful surrounding the place. There are more than 7 temples (Digambar jain & Shvetambar jain temple) are situated on hill and also Jain lord footprint on hill.

Photography is not allowed inside the Shwetamber jain temple. But the temple itself is marvelous piece of architecture from 12th century. The carving in wall, pillars and inside the temples are amazing. Also the main idol of Lord Ajitnath is very huge and attractive.

How to reach Taranga hill:

We went over here by our personal car. Though you can hire taxi from railway station of ahmedabad or airport. It is nearly 125km. You can stay in Ahmadabad city only and visit the site and come back or another option is stay in Mehsana city (60km away). On the way there are lots of highway hotel for food facility. But we were taken our lunch at Jain swetamber Bhojanshala only. The food are delicious.

If you get time than visit the Jogiwada caves/Buddhist caves. It’s situated on the other side of hill and please consult local people for further details.

What you need not to miss:

The Jain Temple(main temple) made from yellow sandstone is very nice and peaceful. The carving in Jain temples(exterior and interior pillars) Lord Ajitnath idol made from one single marble. Hiking to all three mountains (Siddhshila, Kotishila and Mokshbari). The natural scenery during hiking to mountains are amazing. Fresh air and peaceful surrounding is worth to...

It's an engineering marvel.

While travelling to Ambaji from ahmedabad by car, the taranga temple falls on the route. It is in Mehsana District and between Kheralu and Amabaji. It is a Jain temple and quite a old temple but attractive. It is at a distance of about 150 kms. from Ahmedabad on the road to vadnagar, kheralu. Taranga is a major Jain pilgrimage center near Kheralu, around 20 km from Vadnagar in Mehsana district. Taranga Hills of Aravali range is well known in Jainism and Bhuddism where Jain temple built by Chaulukya king Kumarapala residing at Patan and also associated and influenced with Buddhism as well.

As per the Jain sacred scriptures, this place is described as Tar-ur, Taravarnagar, Tarangiri, Tarangadh etc. The present Swetamber Jain temple was built by king Kumarpal of Solanki Dynasty in Vikram samvat year 1221. White Idol of Sri Ajitnath Bhagwan second Tirthankar seated in a lotus posture and of height 2.75 meters is placed in temple. Temple was renovated couple of times in Vikram year 1479 and 1642 and also found some evident that original shrine was built earlier than Vikram 1st century. The temple measures are 50 feet in length, 100 feet in breadth and 142 feet in height with perimeter of 639 feet with magnificently carved and one of India’s most precious works of architecture.

Apart from this, there are four Swetamber Jain temples and five Digamber Jain temples located on top of hill. Kotishila or 1st Tunk where lot of saints performed meditation and 2nd Tunk called Mokshabari or Puyabari is in the eastern direction about a kilometer away. The pure and natural surroundings on the mountain helps in experiencing of extra ordinary...

You must visit this place after a little rain. This place will be full of greenery and if you are fond of nature then you will enjoy a lot. There is a hill to climb but it is not for trekking, there are stairs from bottom to top so you will not enjoy climbing the mountain but after reaching top you will find yourself in jannat.Let's talk about the best road I've ever been on. The road after Prithviraj Chauhan Chowkdi Timba is the road to the Jain Temple and the hill, it is like a small session of ghats. If you like ferries then you will enjoy riding this road but it is not a long journey, after 10 minutes ride you will find yourself at the destination.There is a Jain temple (not on the hill). Basically when you reach there the first thing you will see is a Jain temple. But photography and videography is not allowed there so it is better that you do not do it. According to me if you want to enjoy the best by visiting this place then you should go after little rain or you can go when it is...