点评:Seth Hutheesing Kesarsinh, a prosperous 19th century Ahmedabad merchant, was the one who began the building of this very ornate stone temple in the mid-1800s; after his death, it was completed by his widow, Harkunwar. The temple is estimated to have cost about 10 lakh rupees at the time, now equivalent to approximately 75 crores.
Even on the outside, the temple complex is very intricately carved in the Gujarati-Maru style, with lots of carvings of deities, musicians, dancers and so on. To enter the temple, you have to take off your shoes and leave them on the racks outside. Inside the main shrine, even photography is not allowed. The temple building has profuse carving all over and a striking floor of inlay work in various colours. Small shrines with heavily gilded and bejewelled statues of the Jain tirthankars stand inside the main temple as well as in the corridors surrounding the courtyard in which the temple building stands.
Worth a visit, because the carving is so impressive.
翻译:Seth Hutheesing Kesarsinh 是 19 世纪艾哈迈达巴德的一位繁荣商人,他在 1800 年代中期开始建造这座非常华丽的石头寺庙;他去世后,由他的遗孀哈昆瓦尔完成。这座寺庙当时估计耗资约 100 万卢比,现在相当于约 7.5 亿卢比。
即使在外观上,寺庙建筑群的雕刻也非常复杂,采用古吉拉特马鲁风格,有很多神灵、音乐家、舞者等的雕刻。进入寺庙必须脱掉鞋子,并将鞋子放在外面的架子上。主殿内连拍照都是不允许的。寺庙建筑各处都有丰富的雕刻,地板上有各种颜色的镶嵌作品,引人注目。主寺庙内以及寺庙建筑所在庭院周围的走廊里矗立着小神龛,里面有耆那教的镀金和珠宝雕像。
值得一游,因为雕刻令人印象深刻。