As we were growing up we have heard several stories about interesting facts or interesting stories about our temples. I am starting this thread to start capturing some of these and get additional inputs from others. For starters:
There is a temple complex (I believe in Gundhara) with a temple for Jakh Bahutera and Sachha matta and I remember 2 stories about this.
1. The Sachha Matta temple is the only one in which the temple door is in the West making the goddess sitting with her back to the Sun. The story is that this temple was built after the temple of Jakh Bahutera of whom Sachha Matta is a sister. By facing East Sachha Matta would be disrespecting her brothers which she did not want to do. So after the temple was built, it turned around overnight to face West instead of East.
2. The Jakh Bahutera’s temple also (not sure if it is the same one) has the unique attribute of no one being able to count the 72 idols in the temple accurately unless the caretaker or punditji that resides there counts it with you.
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Unfortunately my knowledge of temples is not that much. But I hope some of the other knowledgeable people here will comment.
I have heard several stories like this too and I remember one of them about our Jain Temple in Ranakpur.
Specialty of that Ranakpur Temple is that it has 1008 pillars and people say that no matter what you cannot count those pillars no matter how many markings you do.
Also the structure of the temple is designed in such a way that any pillar you stand at you can see Bhagwan ni pratimaji. Its said that person who designed the temple architect was a farmer.
That’s my knowledge about the Ranakapur temple incase i am wrong please do correct me.
In Mahudi temple – near Ahmedabad there is a custom of offering Sukhdi to Ghantakaran Mahavirdev. The Sukahadi should be consumed there and no one is allowed to take this Prasad of Sukhdi outside the temple complex. It is a belief that if you take Prasad of Sukhdis outside the temple complex, something very bad shall happen to you or your family.
SametShikhar – It is believed that before starting on the SametShikhar jatra one must pay their respects to Bhumiyaji whose temmple is at the foot of the hills – without this one would get lost along the way and will not be able to perform the jatra successfully.
Girnar is the only jain tirth I know of that has deities of other faiths on the mountain as well though not in the same complex.