Name
Shri Digambar Jain Teerth Kshetra Hastinapur
Is Teerth Kshetra (Sacred place of Janma, Tapa, Deeksha & Gyan Kalyanakas of Three Teerthankaras).
Near by Cities
Meerut 40 km
Delhi 110 km
Muzafar Nagar 55 km
About Hastinapur
The Hastinapur Teerth Kshetra is an ancient place in Meerut District of Western ‘Uttar Pradesh’, which was a center place at sometime in India for political, cultural, and spiritual events.
Out of 52 Mahajanapadas established by Bhagwan Adinath (Rishabhdev), Kurujangal Pradesh was one of them, it’s capital was Gajapur. It may be that due to the huge quantity residing in the forests near the bank of River Ganga, it was named ‘Gajapur’ (Gaja –Elephant). Later on a brilliant king named ‘Hastin’ of ‘Kuru Vansha’ (Vansha -Dynasty) ruled here, so this place was called ‘Hastinapur’. In ancient literature many names are given to this place, but Hastinapur is the most popular name up to the present time.
Next to Ayodhhya, Hastinapur is the most important Teerth. 18 Kalyanakas of 5 Teerthankaras took place at Ayodhhya; while 12 Kalyankas of 3 Teerthankaras – Shri Shantinath, Kunthunath & Arahnath took place at Hastinapur These 3 Teerthankaras were Chakrawarti also. But this Teerth became most famous due to the ‘first Aahar’ of first Teerthankara ‘Bhagwan Rishabhdev’ given by King ‘Shreyans’; the juice of sugarcane was given as Aahar (Meal). Thus the starting of Daan Teerth (Daan-Donation) took place from here on the day of ‘Akshaya – Tratiya’ (the day Vaishakha Shukla Tratiya). From that time Akshaya Tratiya is celebrated all over India as a sacred day.
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